A South African commission has suggested a criminal examination concerning police over the passings of 34 mineworkers amid a strike in 2012.
President Jacob Zuma said the request closed the police had a "deficient arrangement" to end the strike at the Marikana mine and weren't right to continue with it.
Police have constantly guaranteed self-preservation over the shooting of the laborers amid a challenge over wages.
Mr Zuma called it an "appalling disaster that has no spot in a vote based system".
"We ought to, as a country, gain from this excruciating scene. We ought to utilize it to construct a more united, quiet and iron society," he said.
Criminally subject?
The killings were the most noticeably awful roughness in South Africa since the end of politically-sanctioned racial segregation 20 years prior, and prompted extreme investigation over the parts of the police, mining organizations, unions and the legislature.
The mineworkers had been striking for various days, and 10 other individuals had officially passed on at the site - including non-striking excavators, security watchmen and two cops - before the occasions of 16 August.
Perusing out the discoveries of the request, Mr Zuma said that the police had wanted to surround the strikers with spiked metal in the morning and permit them out subsequent to incapacitating them.
Yet, as the quantity of strikers developed later in the day, they executed a "strategic choice" which the commission said was "blemished in various regards".
The commission closed the police ought to have admired that the circumstance was such that "it would have been difficult to incapacitate and scatter the strikers without huge gore".
Police were blamed for permitting the circumstance to escape from control.
In its decisions, the bonus said a full examination ought to be dispatched to figure out if any officers are criminally at risk. It likewise required an investigation into whether police boss Riah Phiyega was fit to hold office.
The report likewise condemned the postponement in getting restorative thoughtfulness regarding the harmed, which it said added until the very end of no less than one of the specialists.
It suggested that a board of specialists ought to be set up to amend policing routines and explore new strategies for group control that don't include "weapons fit for programmed discharge".
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