TRUTH INTERRUPTED?: TRC investigator shut down interview probing Dulcie September murder, inquiry hears
Dulcie September’s family wants to know who told the TRC special investigations chief to abruptly terminate the Paris interview, shortly after the mention of a man tied to French arms companies and reportedly linked to the murder conspiracy and cover-up, the inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions has heard.
The inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions has heard that the TRC special investigations chief, the late Lawandhle Magadhla, abruptly terminated an interview with French Socialist party official Jean-Bernard Curial, shortly after mentioning a man connected to French arms companies and allegedly linked to the murder of Dulcie September.
Former Swedish police investigator Jan-Åke Kjellberg, who was seconded to the TRC in 1996, testified that Magadhla had joined him on 21 November 1997 during the Paris interview. Kjellberg stated that Magadhla unexpectedly terminated the meeting after Curial mentioned French arms involvement in September's assassination, which allegedly took place in 1988.
Magadhla's appointment to the TRC team was controversial, as he was a former apartheid policeman and ANC intelligence agent. The French police file on the assassination, promised to the TRC, was never provided and effectively lay buried in the archives for a year. The TRC Human Rights Violations Committee never pursued the case, and the September family is now seeking to determine who instructed Magadhla to halt the interview and why, as well as the location of the French police file.
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