Former public protector Thuli Madonsela said Friday that the 44 deaths at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana in August 2012 a strike were unnecessary.
At a virtual memorial convention organized through Sibanye-Stillwater, which gripped Lonmin last year, Madonsela revealed the social ills left by 34 miners and 10 dead policemen and security officers.
Madonsela said the tragedy took place because SA had forgotten its history.
“Marikana came because we forgot Array We have forgotten our terrible beyond, our unjust beyond and the legacy it has left us. We’ve forgotten the healing and aimed at renewal. Baseless renewal cannot work. It’s like looking to rebuild a space whose bases have structural failures. At some point, everything will collapse, ” said Madonsela.
She added: “When we communicated about Marikana, we are all the guy in the green blanket, and that’s important, but we also have the other unnamed people who died, the other unnamed people who were mutilated. Widows, sons, daughters, moms and anonymous parents who today live with the pain of the past.
Madonsela claimed that, from the documents she had seen, she believed that Sibanye-Stillwater was on her way to a cure and renewal between her workers and the network in which she was rooted.
She said corporations should replace their technique with capital and work, themselves and communities, and move on to a ubuntu-based relationship.
“In this data based on ubuntu, it’s about co-creating the future. I’ve seen the program and it includes unions, it includes communities, and I think it promises to be the kind of replacement that will move the needle not just for you, but for the country as a whole,” Madonsela said.
“But to be able to do that, you want a set of expansion ideas, not a PUBLIC relations exercise. You want a set of ideas that recognizes the mistakes of the past. You want a state of the brain that accepts vulnerability, knowing that you will make mistakes knowing that you have made mistakes, knowing that it will be criticized, but has detected anywhere there have been mistakes, learning and advancing.
Madonsela noted that there is a lot of corruption and abuse of personnel through the current ones because others overlooked it to recognize where the country came from.
“Marikana and many things are today, adding to other people who steal the poor, rob the fitness professionals who are on the front line, deny them the PPE or give them defective PPE just out of greed. That’s one of the facts we haven’t remembered.
“We will have not to forget what has gone into the afterlife in order to face this beyond, dismantle this beyond and rebuild again. We want to renew not only the way we do things, but also the way we think.” , from extractive thinking to ubuntu thinking, from a polarized commitment between us to co-create the communities in which we want to live and the long term we desire,” Madonsela said.
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