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TRC Cases Inquiry | Didiza’s testimony may face further scrutiny over 2006 meetings

National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, could face further cross-examination at the TRC Cases Inquiry after lawyers representing apartheid victims' families told the Commission that key documents were not put to her during Monday’s testimony. An application to cross-examine Didiza is expected to be filed this week, which could see Didiza return to the witness stand. Didiza was excused from the witness stand after answering questions about two alleged meetings in […]

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TRC Cases Inquiry | Political interference, false allegations stalled apartheid-era prosecutions: Macadam

Former Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Chris Macadam, says political interference in apartheid-era prosecutions reached the highest levels of government, with senior police officials and government ministers allegedly obstructing the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) efforts to pursue long-delayed cases. Testifying at the TRC Cases Inquiry on Wednesday, Macadam detailed how political manoeuvring, missing dockets and attempts to impose executive control over prosecutions contributed to years of delays in cases […]

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TRC cases inquiry | Pikoli testimony reveals why Cradock Four justice stalled

More than three decades after the brutal killing of the Cradock Four, testimony before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry has laid bare a troubling picture of political fears, missing evidence and institutional resistance that stalled efforts to prosecute apartheid-era crimes. Former National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli, told the inquiry he shares the view of victims’ families that the case involving the slain anti-apartheid activists was not meaningfully pursued […]

todayMarch 13, 2026 173 1