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
