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BusinessLive reports that the Claassen board of inquiry has found that suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega is not fit to hold office and must be fired for mishandling the police’s response to the 2012 strike in Marikana.
The report’s damning findings and recommendations against Phiyega were made public for the first time on Thursday in the portfolio committee on police. The inquiry found Phiyega guilty of serious misconduct and breach of her duty in managing and controlling the police’s response to the August 2012 platinum sector strike in Marikana, in which 44 people died. “Her attempt to avoid taking responsibility for the conduct of the police at Marikana by denying that she took the decision [to implement the tactical option] has tainted her evidence to the extent that her credibility is in serious doubt," reads the report. But Phiyega has petitioned the high court to review the report. Her attorney commented that the report’s interpretation of the law and also the roles of the national and provincial commissioners in the Marikana matter, were problematic.
- Read this report by Khulekani Magubane in full at BusinessLive
- Read too, ‘Phiyega must be sacked’, at The New Age
- And also, 'Phiyega should have foreseen catastrophic consequences of Marikana', at EWN
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