TRC Roulette : Former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla denies instruction to halt post-TRC prosecutions
At the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed TRC prosecutions, former minister of justice Brigitte Mabandla denied issuing any instructions to halt prosecutions to National Prosecuting Authority senior official Dr Silas Ramaite.
Former South African Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla denied allegations that she instructed National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) senior official Dr. Silas Ramaite to halt post-TRC prosecutions on 11 November 2004. At the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry, Mabandla stated she never made a phone call to Ramaite on that date. Ramaite alleged that Mabandla had called for a moratorium on TRC prosecutions, prompting him to inform Anton Ackermann, head of the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit, to put the investigations on hold.
Mabandla, however, denied any involvement, claiming she had been in Bangui, Central African Republic, at the time and was certain she did not make the call.
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