Nine years later, the government has not finalised damages claims, but has paid millions for Phiyega to contest the scathing findings against her
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Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t get jobs and lawlessness reigns
Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.
With high-profile savagery by the police becoming routine, what can be done to transform our broken relationship with law enforcement?
Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre
Mpumalanga police commissioner Mondli Zuma has allegedly flouted regulations to purchase a flashy fleet.
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The inquiry found that the suspended police commissioner was not fit to hold office and that she lied to the Marikana Commission of Inquiry.
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The report was delivered to Zuma by the chairperson of the board of inquiry, Judge Neels Claassen.
Suspended SAPS commissioner seeks a review of the report that led to a board of inquiry, which has now reportedly found she is not fit to hold office.
The presidency says the company has been too slow to build accommodation for its workers, many of whom still live in temporary shacks.
Initially suspicious, the major general discovered another side to the tenacious IPID director — which in turn would lead to McBride’s suspension
A board of inquiry into suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness for office was concluded on Friday pending a final finding.
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The Claassen board of inquiry is investigating suspended police commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness for office following the Marikana massacre.
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The Claassen inquiry failed to adequately cross-examine the suspended police commissioner, victims’ representatives argue.
What was said by witnesses appears to suggest it will be difficult to prove her complicity in the Marikana massacre.
Evidence at the Claassen inquiry into the police commissioner’s fitness to hold office reveals that she secretly sought to undermine the Farlam probe.
The Claassen inquiry regarding suspended police commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness for office continued in Pretoria on Wednesday.
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The commission of inquiry into Riah Phiyega’s fitness to hold office began on Tuesday after the police commissioner was suspended last year.
The Mail & Guardian has tracked down the bizarre comments made by the president’s staunchest defenders to explain his Nkandla ‘fire pool’.
It’s clear the SABC will not broadcast Rehad Desai’s Emmy award-winning documentary on Marikana, Miners Shot Down, because it makes the ANC look bad.
With access to high political power, she believed she was unaccountable and untouchable, writes David Bruce.
We are all for due process in governance, but it should be noted that in this particular case it’s being ramped up unnecessarily.
Riah Phiyega’s removal at least raises the faint prospect of peace.
President Jacob Zuma has suspended police commissioner Riah Phiyega with immediate effect and on full pay.
With over 3 600 people killed in a year in the province, Gauteng experienced a higher increase than anywhere else in SA.
A board of inquiry into Riah Phiyega’s fitness to hold office has been set up, President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday.
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A supplier to the police forensic laboratories faces charges of dumping dangerous chemicals.
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National commissioner Riah Phiyega’s questionable fitness for office is just one of the many problems the SAPS faces, writes David Bruce.
The South African police’s chief spin doctor on Friday found himself in the firing line.
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National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega may be suspended pending an inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
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A leaked police report suggests a SAPS chemicals supplier is possibly guilty of tender collusion.
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The police committee chair promised an investigation but the only punishment Riah Phiyega faces for sending a direct SMS to an MP is reflection.