OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.50pm.
THE Transvaal attorney-general’s office is currently investigating possible tampering with evidence from the plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel by former security police chief General Krappies Engelbrecht.
The investigation could lead to a prosecution.
Engelbrecht is one of several apartheid-era generals being scrutinised by the special investigation team of former Transvaal attorney-general Jan D’Oliveira.
Other possible charges against Engelbrecht would relate to his work as head of the security branch and as a senior murder and robbery squad officer.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report described how senior security force officers arrived in Skwamans, near the crash scene, the day before the crash. They included General Kat Liebenberg, former foreign affairs minister Pik Botha, and General van der Westhuizen of military intelligence.
Engelbrecht could also be charged with misleading the Harms commission of inquiry into apartheid hit squads, for which he was the chief investigator. He is also believed to have been involved in supplying arms to the Inkatha Freedom Party, and in covering up the murder of an African National Congress operative’s brother by Vlakplaas covert police operatives.