JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s opposition Friday targeted Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa among top officials they want prosecuted after the release of a report into a police massacre of 34 striking miners.

The radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, led by firebrand Julius Malema, said it would take action to ensure the “political elite” behind the 2012 killings at Lonmin’s Marikana mine were jailed.

“We shall not rest until justice is served and those responsible are sent to rot in jail, particularly Cyril Ramaphosa,” the EFF said in a statement.

The report of a commission of inquiry into the worst police violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid was released by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday night.

It called for the officers involved to face a criminal investigation and for an inquiry into National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness to hold office.

But it cleared senior government officials of any culpability, including then police minister Nathi Mthwethwa and former mines minister Susan Shabangu.