By NIREN TOLSI

The Marikana report revealed more than just operational unaccountability, it revealed a web of lies designed to keep the commission in the dark.

The lengths the South African Police Service (SAPS) went to mislead the Farlam Commission of Inquiry made plain the cover-up that followed their shooting 34 miners dead on August 16 2012, according to the Marikana report released last week.

Commission chairperson, retired judge Ian Farlam’s report suggested a rot at the very top of South Africa’s law and order establishment. And a “prima facie” case that both national police commissioner, General Riah Phiyega, and North West provincial commissioner, Lieutenant General Zukiswa Mbombo, approved a series of lies be submitted to the commission as the “truthful” version of events at Marikana during the protected strike that left 44 people dead.

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