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Miners sing and dance during the commemoration of the 2012 Marikana massacre in August 2016.
Felix Dlangamandla, Beeld, Gallo Images
Former Deputy Police Commissioner in the Northwest, General William Mpembe, and three other senior police officers have been acquitted of all three charges related to the Marikana massacre in August 2012.
Mpembe, along with his co-defendants, Brigadier Jacobus van Zyl, Brigadier Dingaan Madoda and Lieutenant Colonel Oupa Pule, faced one count of defeating the prosecution for allegedly withholding information about the murder of Modisaotsile van Wyk Segalala.
Segalala died in a police van after miners participated in a wage strike on August 16, 2012.
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The regional spokesman for the National Fiscal Authority (NPA), Henry Mamothame, said the men were also acquitted of charges of contravening the IPID Law by failing to report the death of a miner in police custody, and also of contravening the Law of the Commission by not disclosing Segalala’s death in its report.
He said the NPA will study the trial “to make an informed decision.”
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