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Former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Bulelani Ngcuka.
Former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka, has urged the TRC Cases Inquiry to consider the context under which the NPA was operating during the course of his tenure between 1998 and July 2004.
He was responding to questions put to him about failed efforts to get the former crime fighting unit, Scorpions, to provide capacity for the investigation of TRC cases.
Ngcuka is facing cross examination of his statement to the TRC Cases Inquiry a week ago.
Ngcuka said he too was frustrated by lack of progress.
“That November, I was busy with the Hefer Commission in Bloemfontein where I was dealing with the allegations that were made against me by Mo Shaik and Shabir Shaik and Mac Maharaj that I was an apartheid spy. Two, I was dealing with the case of the Arms Deal matter involving the deputy president at the time. I was dealing with serious attempts to discredit the Scorpions by senior members of the ANC, including the secretary general thereof. So, I was busy defending the organisation and I expected my juniors to be able to deal with these matters. There was a sense of frustration from me too.”
Earlier during his cross-examination, Ngcuka said he did not perceive former president Thabo Mbeki’s April 2003 speech to Parliament as seeking to put in place special arrangements to replace the TRC Amnesty process.
Mbeki has been accused by some, such as former NPA head Advocate Anton Ackerman, of signalling an attempt to re-run the TRC Amnesty process.
He had said that the door would be opened to those who had not applied for amnesty to enter into special arrangements with the NPA.
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