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The Star reports that the former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega has suffered another court drubbing in her persistent bid to quash the adverse Marikana Commission’s findings against her.
In May this year, Judge Natvarlal Ranchod dismissed Phiyega's application seeking the review and setting aside of the Commission’s finding concerning her. The commission chaired by retired Judge Ian Farlam placed Phiyega at the centre of the police’s attempt to mislead the public over the 16 August massacre of Lonmin mine workers by police. In her original application, Phiyega sought to convince Ranchod that Farlam’s findings against her were not supported by any evidence and irrational. Ranchod found against Phiyega, saying her participation in the board of inquiry that Judge Farlam had recommended had served to defeat the purpose of her application. This was the Judge Neels Claassen-chaired inquiry, which also found that Phiyega embarked on a “deliberate attempt to mislead South Africa”. The Claassen report had effectively overtaken the Farlam report, Judge Ranchod told Phiyega in his May ruling. Still determined to clear her name over the massacre, Phiyega returned before Judge Ranchod at the Pretoria High Court to seek leave to appeal his entire judgment. Ranchod sent her packing for the second time in a judgment he delivered last week. In just one page, the judge told Phiyega her application for leave to appeal against his earlier judgment had no prospects of success in another court. Following Ranchod’s May judgment, human rights group Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) called for Phiyega’s prosecution over the massacre.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Bongani Nkosi on page 2 of The Star of 25 October 2021
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