By Gabi Falanga —

Johannesburg – “When the 16th happened, my husband was in the mortuary. We were part of what happened at Marikana. We were the first people to get hurt by the Marikana massacre.”

These are the heart-wrenching words of Petunia Lepaaku, the widow of Warrant Officer Sello Lepaaku, who was killed three days before 34 striking miners were mowed down on August 16, 2012.

Like the families of the 34 slain miners, the widows and relatives of the 10 people killed before the Marikana tragedy feel that their quest for justice was not realised by the release of the report on Thursday. But they feel that they, in particular, have been forgotten.

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