Critics ask judge to release Marikana report

President Jacob Zuma has re-emphasised his need to study the recommendations in the Marikana report and decide what to do about them before the document can be made public (by the end of June), but his words have failed to impress critics who don’t want to wait that long , notes Legalbrief. In a bid to circumvent the President's delayed response, they have written to Marikana Commission of Inquiry chairperson, retired Judge Ian Farlam, asking him to release it if Zuma fails to do so by 1 June (see report below). Meanwhile, Zuma continued to defend his position yesterday. 'We cannot just give the report for the sake of it without clear instruction on what must be done with the recommendations. The President has to say what must be done about the recommendations,’ Zuma is quoted as saying in a News24 report. He was responding to debate on the Presidency’s budget vote speech. ‘Therefore the issue of ‘give the report, give the report’ as a slogan is being done as if we don’t care about this matter, as if this very commission was not appointed by us,’ he said.