Vincent Magwenya, woordvoerder van die president, het in ‘n verklaring bevestig dat President Cyril Ramaphosa die uitspraak verwelkom in die saak van Vayeka Sivuka en ander teen Ramaphosa, wat op 1 Julie 2022 deur die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg gelewer is.
AfriNuus het Sondag berig dat dié hooggeregshof Vrydag bevind het dat ‘n saak moontlik teen President Cyril Ramaphosa kan voortspruit na sy beweerde deelname in die aanhitsing van spanning tussen die Lonmin-mynwerkers in Marikana en die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) wat gelei het tot die beserings, sterftes, arrestasies en aanhouding van Lonmin-mynwerkers, asook die werknemers as eisers in die betrokke saak.
“Die tragiese gebeure van Augustus 2012 in Marikana wat tot die dood van 44 mense gelei het, bly een van die mees ontstellende oomblikke van die post-demokratiese era en ‘n treurspel in Suid-Afrika se geskiedenis wat vir altyd in ons harte en gedagtes sal wees,” sê Ramaphosa in ‘n verklaring.
“10 jaar later gaan ons harte steeds uit na gesinne wat hul geliefdes verloor het. Die geweld en die moorde wat plaasgevind het, moes nooit gebeur het nie. Ons is steeds vasberade en verenig in ons veroordeling van die wrede dade wat ons aanskou het,” voeg Ramaphosa by.
“Dit is ontstellend dat die voortdurende verpolitisering van hierdie tragedie lei tot die onregverdige teiken en geïsoleerde toewysing van verantwoordelikheid aan die President. Ander het probeer om ‘n wanindruk te skep dat president Ramaphosa aanspreeklikheid vir die moorde dra.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa het vier dele van die hofuitspraak uitgelig wat hy verwelkom het.
Die verklaring deur president Ramaphosa se woordvoerder lui verder:
In having applied his mind to the judgement in the matter of Sivuka V Ramaphosa, delivered by the High Court on 1 July 2022, President Ramaphosa welcomes the judgement of the High Court, which held that the plaintiff’s particulars of claim were legally flawed in a series of respects.
Four aspects of the High Court judgement need to be emphasised.
First, the High Court agreed with the President’s arguments and held that the plaintiffs had not established that the President bore any legal duty in relation to the Marikana tragedy. Furthermore, the court made no finding that the President was in fact the cause of harmful conduct. The proceedings were not a trial, and no evidence was led. The Court was merely engaged in a legal debate regarding whether the plaintiffs’ allegations complied with the law.
Second, the court rejected the plaintiff’s argument that certain email communications from President Ramaphosa sought to call for the murder of the striking workers. The judgement stated that the plaintiffs’ argument against the President “is not only far-fetched but also irreconcilable within the context of the email communication contents as a whole….”
Third, the High Court agreed with the President that there was no factual basis pleaded for the allegation that collusion between the President, the Government and the senior police would have led to deaths of workers.
Fourth, on the allegations that the President Ramaphosa owed a duty of care to the plaintiffs due to his role as director of Lonmin, the High Court agreed with the President that the allegation was incorrect as a matter of law. In the judgment the court said, “… The allegations pleaded do not show that the first defendant owed the plaintiffs legal duties, and he therefore cannot in law incur liability to the plaintiffs in delict in his capacity as director of Lonmin, or ‘in pursuit of his personal interests and those of Lonmin’.”
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