A LEGAL unit has been established to start prosecuting apartheid-era human rights abusers who failed to ask for or win pardon from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The special unit will soon start deliberating whether there is enough evidence to prosecute perpetrators such as the police officers implicated in the 1977 murder of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, Sipho Ngwema, spokesperson for the national director of prosecutions said on Sunday. He said the unit has requested case files of those who were denied amnesty and those who did not apply for amnesty but were implicated by the TRC in gross human rights violations in its October report. The cases include former State President PW Botha and African National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.