Johannesburg – Former mineral resources minister Susan Shabangu gave police a “licence to kill” at Marikana in August 2012, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Tuesday.

Dali Mpofu, for Lonmin miners wounded and arrested during the unrest at Lonmin’s platinum mining operations at Marikana, near Rustenburg in the North West, referred Shabangu to a statement she made in April 2008.

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