Former African Union Commission chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Tuesday was chased away from the 2012 Marikana massacre site in South Africa, according to local media reports.
The presidential hopeful of the South African ruling African National Congress (ANC) and her supporters were reportedly refused access to the site by locals.
News24 reported that Dlamini-Zuma had planned to lay a wreath at the site where 34 miners were shot dead by South African police on August 16, 2012.
78 others sustained serious injuries during the incident in which the police fired into a crowd of striking mine workers.
The mine workers were demanding wage increase. Surviving victims of the massacre and families of those who died have expressed anger at the failure of the ANC government to deliver justice by bringing those behind the massacre to book.
Eyewitness News reported that a group of men, wearing Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) T-shirts chased the ex-wife of President Zuma away.
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Amcu’s leader Joseph Mathunjwa was quoted by Eyewitness News as saying “We advice that she rather approached the national office of Amcu and that office will take it up with branch structures and also communicate with the widows about her visit.”
The union said the site where the miners were killed is not a political space.
In a video posted on social media, some men in AMCU T-shirts chased Dlamini-Zuma and her supporters away.
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Source: Africafeeds.com
