Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock and Pretoria local prison head Nick Baloyi were accused on Thursday of fabricating evidence to discredit a witness before the Jali commission of inquiry into prison mismanagement.
Evidence leader Graham Barlow told the commission Baloyi had been accused of asking a prisoner to give false testimony to disprove the evidence of Louis Karp.
The prisoner in question, a former policeman, was allegedly helping prison warders draw up false statements for submission to the commission.
Barlow said De Kock, also an inmate of Pretoria Central Prison, had been implicated in this collusion.
He declined to name the source of the allegations as he feared for that person’s safety.
Barlow indicated that the individual was prepared to testify before the commission.
The commission started hearing cross examination of Karp, a homosexual former prisoner who claims to have been raped and molested while in jail, on Thursday.
Karp, who prefers to be called Louisa, spent one year and eight months in prison awaiting trial on a charge of possessing a stolen vehicle.
He was eventually given a suspended five-year sentence.
Among other allegations, Karp said he was sold by a prison warder in May 2001 to a group of four male prisoners who raped him regularly over a period of two months.
He also claimed that prison warder Thokozane Nxumalo forced him to perform oral sex. — Sapa