Sunday, September 22, 2013

Crimes of the South African Police Service

Farlam Commission: Police lied about events on 16 August at Marikana

THURSDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2013 15:55


City Press reports that the Farlam Commission of Inquiry’s evidence leaders have accused the police of lying to the commission about the events of 16 August at Marikana when 34 miners were shot dead by police.  This allegation was contained in a press release issued today by the advocates responsible for leading evidence before the commission.  It emerged after police hard drives containing thousands of pages of records which the police have never handed over were leaked.  Among these pages of evidence were documents “which in our opinion demonstrate that the SAPS version of the events at Marikana, as described in the SAPS presentation to this commission and in the evidence of the SAPS witnesses at this commission, is in material respects not the truth”.  The police are said to have lied about the existence of certain documents, hidden other documents and faked certain documents.  The evidence leaders have called for a halt to the proceedings until next Wednesday.

South African Labour News