Once the situation got to a group of armed men being within spitting distance of each other - the ending was never going to be pretty. The situation should never have gotten to that stage to start with.

If this is going to degenerate into finger pointing and political posturing then we will see more Marikanas in the future. We need to find out where the tipping point was, why it got there and how to prevent it happening EVER again. That means that the actions of every one of the players in this tragedy are scrutinised.

Who is stupid enough to believe that anything will come out of the ANC government's Judicial Commission? Even if they produced evidence and recommendations by the truck-loads, they will sit on their hands and delay publication for years until everyone forgets about Marikana. The ANC government and NUM have been complicit in the treatment of miners and their families by Lonmin.

The only question that needs answering is what are they going to do about it. Prosecuting the killers of the miners as well as the policemen and security guards can wait until this central issue is resolved.

Nothing new has occurred, except that it is now on a higher plane, and Mangaung is neigh. Police have shot and killed people. Unions have fought for employees' subscriptions, 'and have engaged in killing non-strikers before. We must therefore be highly skeptical at the new-found, and aggressively-marketed 'commission of inquiry', when facts speak for themselves. We only experience grown-up men gleefully clapping hands at the "inquiry", without helping us see the possible result of 'unearthing' what we already know. No thought ventures beyond the result thereof. The commission will do its work, as most have done before, and miserable life will still continue thereafter,and the dead will remain dead - likely without reprisals.

Killing by state machinery must be followed by criminal charges, of which 'inquiry forms part. Orwell once said; "Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter." "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better." "Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

Where were the ANC leeches when the Marikana community was laboring in pain, murder and anguish!?

They were busy calculating their next BBE move and how they can stay in power to enrich themselves thereby strategizing their ''road to riches'' after Mangaung saga.

Yet people still believe in this hyenas, lame hypocrites, Africans who vote ANC are idiots!?