The National Prosecuting Authority told MPs it was trying to expedite Truth and Reconciliation cases because it understood victims’ families were losing hope of
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Forensic pathologists exhume the remains of political prisoners from a grave at Rebecca Street Cemetery on December 14, 2016 in Pretoria. The twelve members of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army were buried after they were hanged at the Pretoria Prison in 1964.
The group of teenage activists were captured in 1986 after an operative of the ANC’s armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe, who worked as an informer for the state, pretended to recruit them for military training in Zambia. They were killed in a minibus rigged with explosives and buried in unmarked graves north of Pretoria.
In these cases, the chances of location to recover remains depends on the availability of information from amnesty applications, as was the case with the Since September 2021, when the NPA established a dedicated unit to deal with TRC cases, 104 new investigations stemming from the work of the commission have been identified and pursued.
“Of course we cannot sometimes anticipate the delays that potential accused or suspects will have on matters, but to the extent possible prosecutors and investigators are working to timelines so that we can get matters finalised.” “I am advised that there are many more families awaiting the inquests of their loved ones to be opened or reopened to get to the truth of how they died while in Security Branch detention.”
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