First energy advisor to President Zuma

FORMER City Power managing director, Silas Mzingeli Zimu has bounced into the spotlight as the first energy advisor to President Jacob Zuma. The move comes as pressure is expected to mount on the government and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa over Eskom’s 12.61 percent tariff increase application which has sparked an uproar with civic groups concerned about the plight of the poor. Zimu, currently the chief executive of Suzlon Wind Energy, started his career in the electricity industry when he joined Eskom in 1992, where he worked as an engineer in the generation group. He joined City Power in 2001. – Staff Reporter WORKERS at Lonmin want an international forum to review the findings of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the August 2012 killing of striking mineworkers by the police in Marikana.

Workers took exception to the exoneration of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and other executives at the world’s third biggest platinum producer, Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) president Joseph Mathunjwa said in an interview yesterday, following the union’s feedback meeting with mineworkers and widows in Marikana.

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which spanned over 300 days.

John Capel, an executive director for the Bench Marks Foundation, said yesterday that Lonmin received only a slap on the wrist despite its provocation of the mineworkers after refusing to speak to them and labelling them murderers.

“Workers were hoping for justice and all (Judge) Farlam said was that they be charged for attempted murder, that is a huge weakness in the report,” said Capel.

The Bench Marks Foundation is an independent organisation monitoring corporate performance in the field of corporate social responsibility.

It has penned several reports highlighting the conditions in which the mineworkers lived and the social volatility this represented as far back as 2007.