Zuma showed contempt for Marikana workers – lawyer

President Jacob Zuma has shown contempt for the mineworkers arrested and injured during the Marikana shooting by telling Parliament before responding to them about the release of the inquiry's report, a lawyer for the group said yesterday. ‘Credit must go to the arrested and injured miners and Amcu that they were able to extract an answer,’ lawyer Andries Nkome reportedly told News24. ‘(However), this shows our clients that the President holds them in contempt (by not responding to them)... but he decides to say this in Parliament.’ During his budget vote speech in Parliament yesterday, Zuma said he would release the report before the end of next month. This had come almost two months after he had received the report and amid threats of legal action in a bid to have the report made public as soon as possible, Nkome said.

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