Johannesburg – Lonmin, the world’s fourth-largest platinum producer by value, responded on Friday to a report condemning its role in the massacre of striking workers at its Marikana mine in South Africa by saying it had worked hard to improve safety and wellbeing for its workers, but still had a long way to go.

The 2012 “Marikana massacre”, where 34 miners were gunned down by police, shocked the world.

The 640-page report into South Africa’s worst police killing since the end of apartheid was released by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday and blamed Lonmin, police and unions for the “horrendous tragedy”.

The report faulted Lonmin on five counts, including an insistence that miners who were not on strike come to work while it could not guarantee their safety at the mine near Rustenburg.

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