# Lonmin director Ramaphosa emails for concomitant action in the Marikana week

Date: 2012

## The fact

In the week of 16 August 2012, while [Cyril Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) sat on Lonmin’s board, emails urged concomitant action against the Marikana strike. Police killed 34 miners that day. He did not command the tactical unit. A later Farlam commission named shared responsibility.

## Context

He was not president. Neighbouring 2018 oath is later.

2018 presidency is later. Phala Phala is a different integrity file.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. The Guardian records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) and justice: a completed director-week beside a named death toll, remaining police command as a neighbour.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 16 August 2012 massacre and contemporaneous Lonmin-director emails, independently reported.

Not established: that he uniquely authored the police volley, or a unique later homicide coefficient from that Thursday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

SAPS fired. Farlam later sat. NUM members were on both sides of the week.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Lonmin director Ramaphosa emails for concomitant action in the Marikana week, not a later speech about Lonmin director Ramaphosa emails for concomitant action in the Marikana week.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Lonmin director Ramaphosa emails for concomitant action in the Marikana week on 2012-08-16 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Lonmin director Ramaphosa emails for concomitant action in the Marikana week into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was a Lonmin director who emailed for concomitant action. SAPS fired. Farlam later sat. NUM members were on both sides of the week. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access
- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/16/south-african-police-shoot-striking-miners
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-marikana-2012