Prioritise TRC matters and bring the culprits to account

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OPINION: The Priority Crimes Litigation Unit was set up under a proclamation by president Thabo Mbeki in 2003. One of its mandates was and is to investigate and prosecute criminal cases, which emanated from the TRC process.

April 27, 1994 heralded the beginning of a new dawn in South Africa. Decades of white minority rule entrenched with apartheid’s racial segregation laws had ended.

South Africa avoided going the Nürnberg trials option that severely punished perpetrators for crimes committed, but rather opted for the TRC, seeking truth and healing as a means of nation building. In 2005, Mbeki’s administration attempted to institute a back-door amnesty deal that was rejected by the courts in 2008.

Disconcerting is the lack of progress in the criminal trial of former security branch police sergeant João Rodrigues for his role in the murder of Ahmed Timol, says the writer. Picture: Dimpho Maja/African News Agency Counsel for Rodrigues argue that charges against him must be dropped due to his age, allegation of gross political interferences and secret amnesty deals. In their affidavit filed before the Full Bench of the South Gauteng High court, they also raised the issue of political interference within the NPA between 2003 and 2017.

 

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'The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has also decided not to charge security police officers Neville Els and Seth Sons for perjury in the 2017 inquest, despite the evidence led at the inquest showing them torturing detainees' NtlatlapaBokang

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