MARIKANA, August 15 (ANA) - Platinum producer Lonmin has not deserted plans to erect a Marikana Memorial Park, the company said on Wednesday.
"At last year’s five-year commemoration of the Marikana tragedy, Lonmin announced its desire to facilitate this project. Since then, the company has developed a draft design for the public space which will be dedicated to the memory of those whose lives were lost," said Khaya Ngcwembe, Human Resource executive on behalf of Lonmin CEO Ben Magara.
Magara could not attend the company's commemoration in Mooinooi.
"Lonmin had planned for this stakeholder consultation to begin in July. These plans, however, have had to be delayed because the necessary approval from Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union [Amcu] for the Marikana Memorial Park Design has not yet been received."
He said Lonmin has appointed an internal project team, built a physical model of the park and planned a detailed, independently managed stakeholder consultation to ensure that the Marikana Memorial Park Design fulfils their needs.
Thirty-four mineworkers were shot by the South African police on 16 August 2012, with a further 78 wounded and 275 were arrested. Ten people, including six mineworkers, two Lonmin security officers and two policemen, were killed in days leading up to the August 16 massacre.
- African News Agency (ANA)
