Police investigated, and cleared, 87 of their own members in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. "They were cleared internally," SAPS deputy national commissioner for human resource management, Lieutenant-General Bonang Mgwenya, told Parliament's police committee on Wednesday. By MARIANNE MERTEN.
Like the police, its statutory watchdog, the Independent Police Investigation Directorate (Ipid), was there to update MPs on the implementation of Marikana Commission of Inquiry recommendations. Ipid boss Robert McBride appeared gobsmacked. "It's strange they were all cleared, as so many people died. In future, please involve Ipid. Otherwise it's the police investigating itself," he told MPs.
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