By SAPA
Counsel for Marikana miners wounded and arrested in August 2012 got the opportunity on Thursday to question a police officer who fired shots during the strike-related unrest.
Dali Mpofu, SC, cross-examined North West deputy provincial commissioner Maj-Gen Ganasen Naidoo at the public hearings of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry.
“The importance of your evidence in the context of this commission is that you are the first shooter we are interacting with. I will not traverse on areas that have been covered already [by other lawyers],” Mpofu said as he began his examination after midday.
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