South African President Cyril Ramafos announced a court investigation into the allegations of political interference in criminal prosecution of crimes by Apartheid.
The announcement comes three decades after the end of the rule of white minorities – and after the group of relatives of the survivors and victims sued Ramaphos’s government over the observed lack of justice.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was founded in 1996. in the year, the Atrocytons of Apparents for Apartheid-Ere such as murder and torture, but few cases progressed to trial.
Announcing a new inquiry, the presidential statement said that Ramaphosa was “determined that true facts were established and the fact brought to finality.”
The investigation is the outcome of the discussion on the Settlement in the High Court, who brought 25 families and survivors.
The group, which are sued by the Government for Damage worth $ 9 million ($ 6.8 million), that the crimes of the apartheid-era are never properly researched by the governments that came after the racist system.
Prosecutors include son Fort Calata among the group of activists against Apartheid who came known as Cradock Four, burned and killed by security forces in 1985. years.
Their murder of four men caused indignation across the country, and six former police officers in the end recognized their involvement on the Trc. The Commission was denied amnesty, but they were never taken into account. All six officers have died since then.
For years, cractors allegedly alleged that the post-apartheid management of the African National Congress (ANC) formed a secret contract with the former government of white minorities in order to prevent the Prosecution. Anc denied it.
The Presidency was admitted on Wednesday that “allegations of improper influence in the delaying or disruption of the investigation and prosecutor’s crime from the apartheid era are persevered by previous administrations.”
The head of the investigation, along with its schedule, will soon be announced.
2025-04-30 16:46:00
