Twenty-five families and survivors of apartheid-era crimes have filed an application in the Pretoria High Court against President Cyril Ramaphosa and the government, seeking constitutional damages for the government's failure to adequately investigate and prosecute apartheid-era political crimes following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
Lukhanyo Calata, son of Fort Calata—one of the Cradock Four at a press conference. Picture: ScreengrabTwenty-five families and survivors of apartheid-era crimes have filed an application in the Pretoria High Court against President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government, seeking constitutional damages for the government's failure to adequately investigate and prosecute apartheid-era political crimes following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process.
Lukhanyo Calata, son of Fort Calata—one of the Cradock Four at a press conference. Picture: Screengrab “To prosecute my father's killers, allow justice for me, my mother and sisters, and create a type of society where my father's life mattered. When the successive ANC-led administrations failed to do that, it told me that my father's life, and the many victims who became known as the Cradock Four, didn't matter,” he said.
The families seek constitutional damages against the state for its failures. Odette Geldenhuys, Head of the Webber Wentzel Pro Bono Department representing the applicants, explained that constitutional damages are a last-resort legal remedy to address grave violations of constitutional rights by the state.
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