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Evidence leader Geoff Budlender was scathing in his summary of the SAPS at the commission.

This passionate plea from evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson set the tone for the first day of closing arguments.

Evidence leaders showed photos of the slain miners taken by the first forensic investigator and compared them to a set taken by another later in the day.

Nevertheless, the evidence leaders say neither Ramaphosa nor the officers at the meeting can be held to be legally responsible for the killings.

Police exceeded the bounds of private defence and inadequate care was taken to shoot at lower limbs and stop shooting within a reasonable time, said the evidence leaders.

The evidence leaders have asked the commission to recommend an inquiry be held into the fitness of National Commissioner Riah Phiyega to hold office.

The day was dominated by the evidence leaders, who dismantled the South African police's case and reminded everyone that it was people, not faceless caricatures who died.

In their heads of argument, the evidence leaders said all mineworkers who can be identified to have carried dangerous weapons should be investigated and charged.

Looking at "scene two", the evidence leaders say Brigadier Adriaan Calitz and Major-General Ganasen Naidoo should be investigated for criminal liability as they were present on the ground.

On the events later in that fateful week, the evidence leaders argued improper political influence, stemming from South Africa's deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa's phone calls, which led to the decision to remove the strikers.

The evidence leaders argued: "In a constitutional democracy it is never acceptable for a line of police members armed with military assault rifles to fire 300 shots into a crowd of striking miners.