South African Police lied about events surrounding the killings of 34 striking mineworkers last year, according to the commission looking into the massacre at Marikana. 

Ten days after the commission obtained police hard drives and other documents, it concluded that cops falsified documents, withheld truthful documents, and knowingly gave untrue accounts of the shootings.  The commission is still digging through the evidence, but is clearly outraged by what it has found so far.

South Africa was shocked by the Marikana shootings in August 2012, the deadliest police action since the fall of apartheid.  The miners and police had clashed for a week prior, with 10 people killed including two officers who were hacked to death. 

Earlier reports indicated that police opened fired when the miners charged them.  But journalists investigating the massacre found that the majority of victims were shot 300 meters away from the police lines, and the spread of the bullets indicated that there was no hail of bullet – rather, the police appeared to have hunted down and shot the miners, killing 34 and wounding more than 70.