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Thabo Mbeki at The African Peace and Security Dialogue.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Cases Inquiry has heard a scathing attack on former president Thabo Mbeki on the fourth day of public hearings at the TRC Cases Inquiry in Newtown, Johannesburg.
Lukanyo Calata, son of Fort Calata who was part of the Cradock Four murdered by the apartheid state in 1985, has laid the blame for the denial of justice squarely on Mbeki’s door.
Calata says it was to Mbeki in 2003, that the TRC’s Final Report, referring 300 cases to the NPA for investigation and prosecution, was handed.
Mbeki has in recent years denied leaning on the NPA to stall progress on TRC Cases.
Calata says the former President had two terms of office, from 1999 to 2008, to do justice to those who were at the receiving end of apartheid-era human rights violations.
“Now he issues a statement and he says the NPA must demonstrate enough integrity by apologizing for not processing the TRC cases rather than engage in dishonorable behavior of trying to hide behind a fig leaf with his nothing more than pure fabrication. Here, former President Thabo Mbeki insults our intelligence. He says the NPA they must demonstrate enough integrity. What about integrity on his half? How about him apologizing to us for the failures of his administrations to process TRC cases? He says the NPA is engaging in dishonorable behavior. I suppose his behavior was quite honorable. Yet here I sit without justice for my father.”
VIDEO | TRC Cases | Lukhanyo Calata testifies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laipPmJs_DA
