Ackerman slams Mbeki’s approach to TRC cases

Former National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate, Anton Ackerman, has described former president Thabo Mbeki’s approach to the investigation and prosecution of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases as manipulative.
He was testifying before the TRC Cases Inquiry in Newtown, Johannesburg.
The Inquiry is probing alleged efforts or attempts to stop the prosecution and investigation of apartheid-era violations. Ackermann says Mbeki’s actions reflect the saying “the ends justify the means”.

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. pic.twitter.com/acvw15ndq9
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“The end that President Mbeki was so desperately seeking was some accommodation of many of those who did not take part in the TRC process. The means that he used to achieve this end were unconstitutional. It was also morally questionable. This was a process embarked on by the Amnesty Task Team, the Draft Amnesty Bill and ultimately the amendments to the prosecuting, the TRC prosecuting policy, which became effective on 1st December 2005. That amounted to a rerun of the Amnesty process,” says Ackerman.
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