Dali Mpofu’s application for the postponement of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry will be discussed on Thursday.

Mpofu, who is appearing for the miners who were wounded and arrested at Marikana last year, arrived at the commission with some of his clients on Wednesday.

He asked that the hearings be put on hold until the issue of funding for his team was resolved.

Mpofu has provisionally withdrawn from the commission because of a lack of funding.

“Continuing with the commission’s work in the absence of my clients is prejudicial,” he submitted.

Mpofu told the commission some of his clients were being harassed by the police.

However, Ishmael Semenya, for the police, said the arrest of anyone was not meant to harass them or disturb the functioning of the hearings.

The commission, which is sitting in Centurion, is investigating the deaths of 44 people in strike-related unrest near Lonmin’s platinum mining operations at Marikana, in North West, last August.

Police shot dead 34 people, almost all of them striking mineworkers, on August 16. Ten people, including two policemen and two security guards, were killed in the preceding week.

-Sapa