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8 YEARS LATER, MINERS’ FAMILIES AWAIT JUSTICE

The sight of a blue police uniform is a disturbing reminder to Sebolai Liau that someone wearing the same apparel pulled a trigger that released a bullet that took his father’s life.

What makes it even worse is knowing that none of those who sprayed bullets in the direction of his father, Janaveke Raphael Liau, and 33 other striking Lonmin mining company workers in Marikana near Rustenburg on August 16 2012 have been prosecuted for the killings that shook the country.

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