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City Press reports that suspended former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega is heading to the North Gauteng High Court to have the adverse findings of the Farlam commission of inquiry against her set aside.
She says they were simply a cut-and-paste job. With less than a month to go before a board of inquiry into her fitness to hold office begins, Phiyega has instructed her lawyers to haul to court all the role players in the inquiry, held after the 2012 Marikana massacre in which 34 mine workers were gunned down by police. Phiyega said to City Press: “My lawyers are currently drafting the court papers and will soon approach the court. While that process continues, I want the board of inquiry to continue.” Her legal team has been scrutinising the findings of the commission and comparing them with the heads of argument submitted by the evidence leaders. So far, they have apparently found 113 instances where the retired judge copied the heads of arguments verbatim. Phiyega’s lawyers last week wrote to Farlam about their concerns and their impending court challenge.
- Read this report by Abram Mashego in full at City Press
- Read too, IPID lacks funds to conduct Marikana probe, at SABC News
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