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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Inquiry in Johannesburg has heard that the police resorted to “dirty tricks” to ensure that those who were involved in the 1981 poisoning of anti-apartheid activist Reverend Frank Chikane were not prosecuted.
This is according to former National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Anton Ackermann.
He was testifying on the 15th day of the TRC Cases Inquiry being held at Newton in Johannesburg.
Ackermann says a letter with his forged signature was presented by police to an interdepartmental TRC task team in June 2006. The letter advised that 37 ANC leaders be investigated for the then-exiled party’s land mines campaign.
This was despite the NPA concluding in May 2004 that there was no basis to do such.
Ackermann explains why such a forgery was important, saying the task team was after all created for the purpose to make decisions on TRC matters.
“If the task team was unsuccessful with their attempts to prevent a prosecution, the powers that be must then get another plan. And that plan was to obtain evidence that Ackermann was still investigating the 37 ANC leaders. But the problem was that there was no evidence to that effect. So, what is the next step? Documents must be fabricated to prove that I was still investigating the 37 leaders.”
www.sabcnews.com, https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/trc-inquiry-hears-of-police-dirty-tricks-in-chikane-poisoning-case/
