The refusal by Justice Sisi Khamepepe to step down as Chairperson of the TRC Cases Inquiry in Johannesburg should be declared unlawful simply because it was not taken by the commission heads as a collective. President Cyril Ramaphosa, as a respondent in the case, has said that he asked Khampepe, through Minister of Justice Mmamoloko Kubayi, to step down after he …

A full bench of the High Court in Pretoria will on Monday hear former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma’s bid to review retired Justice Sisi Khampepe’s refusal to recuse herself from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases inquiry. The matter will sit in the High Court for the next two days. The former Presidents claim Khampepe applied a …

A full bench of the High Court in Pretoria will on Monday hear former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma’s bid to review retired Justice Sisi Khampepe’s refusal to recuse herself from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases inquiry. The matter will sit in the High Court for the next two days. The former Presidents claim Khampepe applied a …

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 …

Former National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, says he was never subjected to political interference with regards to Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) cases during his tenure. Ngcuka, who held the office from 1998 to 2004, was democratic South Africa’s first NDPP and says he was committed to taking forward the investigation and prosecution of the TRC cases due to …

Lawyers for former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP)  Bulelani Ngcuka have failed to avoid cross-examination of their client at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Cases Inquiry taking place in Newton, Johannesburg. They argued that a directive given by Chairperson Justice Sisi Khampepe, allowing counsel for the victims of families to question him, did not comply with the Inquiry’s …

The SACP has urged government to condemn the actions of the US and Israel. The communist party was speaking after its two-day Lekgotla in Johannesburg, following the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East.   Party National Spokesperson Mbulelo Mandlana says the South African position should be to resist rather than to care for the actions of the American government and the Israeli government in …

Day 10 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Cases public hearings today will hear the testimony of two individuals related to the Afrikaner Interest group, Afriforum. Its CEO, Kallie Krie,l is expected to ask the commission to ensure that the principle of equality before the law is restored by focusing not only on the prosecuted members of the armed …