Chikane laments lack of action on apartheid-era cases

Anti-apartheid activist and former Director-General in the Presidency, Reverend Frank Chikane, says South Africa’s post-TRC process failed many victims of apartheid-era crimes.

Chikane was testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases Inquiry in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

The commission is probing allegations of political interference and deliberate delays in the investigation and prosecution of apartheid crimes.

Chikane told the inquiry that despite plea agreements and evidence emerging after the original TRC process, many leads were never pursued by authorities.

Chikane says one of his biggest frustrations is that information contained in plea agreements was never properly investigated by the prosecuting authorities. He adds that potential evidence linked to other apartheid-era crimes was effectively ignored.

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