North West - The judicial inquiry into the shooting at the Lonmin platinum mine was shown on Tuesday the scene where four of the company's vehicles were burnt.
Natasha Viljoen, of Lonmin, said the four vehicles were set alight on August 16 at its western platinum technical services office.
“The men climbed over the fence,” she told retired judge Ian Farlam, who is chairing the commission.
The parking bays where the vehicles had been burnt were covered in glass, debris and ash.
She said that since the incident the office, which was next to the Wonderkop Stadium, had been enclosed with barbed wire.
The visit to the office was part of the in loco (place) inspection by the commission.
From the Lonmin office the commission would go to the area where two security guards were killed, then head east to the National Union of Mineworkers' office.
The commission, accompanied by advocates, lawyers, observers and media would also go to the Wonderkop mining hostels, the Lonmin formal housing settlement and two informal settlements in the area.
Some of the legal teams representing the workers and families asked that the commission also inspect the areas where Lonmin management lived in Mooinooi.
Thirty-four miners were killed and 78 wounded when police opened fire on them while trying to disperse protesters near Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana on August 16.
Some reports since the event have indicated that several miners were shot dead among rocks a distance from where the police clashed with main group of striking workers.
On Monday, the commission inspected the hills where the mineworkers had assembled in the days before the shooting. - Sapa