The inquiry into the fitness to hold office of suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega will hear testimony from witnesses with knowledge of a "secret meeting" at which it was decided that mortuary vans be sent to "Marikana police station for any disaster that can occur during the Marikana/Lonmin strike".The request that the vans be made available was recorded in the Phokeng mortuary's occurrence book on August 16 2012, hours before the shootings at Marikana.The board of inquiry into Phiyega's fitness to hold office, and into her alleged misconduct for her role in the adoption of a plan said to have led to the Marikana massacre, began in Pretoria yesterday.Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela, divisional commissioner of the police's operational response services, is expected to testify today about the high-level meeting on August 15 2012 at which the decision to disperse the striking Lonmin miners was taken.Another key witness is Captain Monwabisi Joseph Ntlati, of the police ...
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