Lawyer for the wounded and arrested Lonmin miners in Marikana Dali Mpofu has accused National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega of showing no regret for the killing of the miners last year.

Mpofu says a newspaper article reported that Phiyega said police were not sorry for what happened at the Lonmin Platinum Mine in Marikana in the North West, after 34 miners were killed.

Phiyega, who is testifying at the Commission of Inquiry sitting in Rustenburg, has refuted that. However, Mpofu says she did not refute the report which was published last year.

“And there seems to be this reluctance, without taking legal obligations and all that kind of things, simply to say ‘We are Sorry’.”

Phiyega says, “So why should I be sorry for the thing that I have said to you I did not do? And when it comes to lives, my statement, my attestation to this commission, I have expressed my issues, my sentiments on that matter, so I’m concerned when you are saying I have failed to do so, when I’ve done it in the ears and eyes of everybody here.”

Last week, she came out in defence of the officers who were on the ground during the shooting on August 16, 2012. However, Phiyega also reiterated that she was not a trained police officer and therefore would not answer certain questions.
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