Rustenburg -
The Marikana commission of inquiry visited the Nkaneng informal settlement on Tuesday, near the hill were Lonmin miners were killed.
Police raided the settlement in the weeks following the August 16 shooting that left 34 miners dead.
In the blazing sun the three-member commission, advocates, observers and journalists walked north through the area. A resident showed the commission where the police had been standing just before the raid.
The woman said she saw about four police vehicles.
“I was scared,” she said through a translator.
Some of the mineworkers, who had gathered on the hill near the settlement prior to the shooting, were standing at the outskirts of Nkaneng when police arrived.
The woman said the men had their traditional weapons down, but police still fired.
“The children are still traumatised when they see police in uniform,” she said.
Commission head, retired judge Ian Farlam, asked the woman not to give evidence, but to point out where things happened.
Curious Nkaneng residents joined the group as it made its way through the informal settlement.
The commission went to look at the site where a councillor was shot. He died in hospital later. Farlam was shown bullet holes in some of the shacks.
The commission adjourned for lunch and would resume its inspection at 3pm, when mine shafts would be visited. - Sapa