Red herring: iLIVE
South African success story, Cyril Ramaphosa - lawyer, trade union leader, activist, politician and businessman. He is currently the chairman of the Shanduka Group.
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Blaming Cyril Ramaphosa for the deaths of the 34 miners at Marikana is just a red herring to shift the attention and blame from where it belongs ("Pressure piles up on Cyril", yesterday).
The strike was illegal, and the strikers were not entitled to kill people who disagreed with them. They were not innocent.
Ramaphosa's e-mails should have been taken seriously. Instead, on the evening of the "massacre", President Zuma was dancing and singing in Mahekeng to celebrate the ANC centenary.
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