The SA Humans Rights Council says the police and their management are covering up events surrounding the Marikana shooting.
It says national police commissioner Riah Phiyega has failed to mention a statement by police officer Hendrich Wouter Myburgh, which contradicted her assertion that police acted in self-defence.
Council representative, and director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Bonita Meyersfeld says at best, the national commissioner was dishonest in saying that she had received no information to cause her to question the truth of her press statement that the police had acted only in self-defence.
She says at worst, the fact that the police have never mentioned this evidence is indicative of a deliberate cover-up.
Phiyega told the Farlam Commission of Inquiry investigating the events surrounding the shooting in North West on August 16 that she stood by her stance that police acted in self-defence when they shot the miners.
