Not one police officer prosecuted yet for involvement in Marikana – NPA
Cape Town – Legal proceedings against the 72 police officers involved in the killing of 34 miners during the Marikana Massacre has not yet started, five years after the tragedy, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday.
The dockets investigating the police officials involved in the killing of the miners on August 16, 2012, has not been received from the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku told News24.
He said investigations surrounding the two miners killed on August 13 are at an “advanced stage.”
“Prosecutors will decide in due course whether any person(s) should be prosecuted in respect of the matter.”
IPID investigations into August 13 killings were handed over to the NPA in April, but was sent back to IPID “with queries,” the police watch dog unit's spokesperson Moses Dlamini said.