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Justice: President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered a commission of inquiry into ANC governments’ role in possibly delaying investigations.
CRADOCK FOUR

New inquiry into whether prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes were blocked

Successive ANC-led governments have been criticised by some for prioritising national reconciliation ahead of justice for victims

  • Gerald Imray
3 min read
Lukhanyo Calata accused the post-apartheid state of betraying the constitutional rights of victims and survivors of the atrocities by suppressing cases referred to the NPA by the TRC. (File photo)
CRADOCK FOUR

Ramaphosa will no longer oppose application on TRC cases

The president has withdrawn his notice to oppose a landmark case led by the son of Fort Calata

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
The happy couple: What did psychiatrist Ingrid Williamson think and feel knowing that her husband, Craig, had been responsible for killing Ruth First, Jeanette Schoon and her daughter Katryn?
CRADOCK FOUR

The two faces of Doctor Williamson, wife of an apartheid serial killer

Ingrid Evita Williamson is a psychiatrist praised for her kindness. But for nearly 50 years she has been the devoted wife of Craig Williamson, the security policeman who admitted…

  • Drew Forrest
12 min read
A priest leads a funeral procession for four United Democratic Front activists from Queenstown who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police. Those slain included Matthew Goniwe and Sparrow Mkonto. One mourner carries a small ceremonial spear within his black power salute, symbolic of Umkonto Wa Sizwe, which means “spear of the nation”. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)
APARTHEID CRIMES

Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

  • Zubeida Jaffer
4 min read
Tiny steps: Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk make opening press statements during the first talks between the National Party government and the ANC.(Photo by © Louise Gubb/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Apartheid truths die with De Klerk

The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
The last president of the apartheid dispension FW de Klerk. (Photo by Ginkgo Agency/ www.21Icons.com via Getty Images)
APARTHEID

FW de Klerk ‘eroded his stature and became a small man’

Mixed reactions from South Africans as apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, dies after battling with cancer

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
Justice delayed: A poster outside the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg calls on people to share their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Rodger Bosch)
AHMED TIMOL

A renewed commitment to TRC cases

The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.

  • Tymon Smith
9 min read
COURTS

Court reserves judgement in Cradock Four bid

A court on Monday reserved judgement in an application for amendments to the prosecuting policy on apartheid-era crimes to be suspended.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
CRADOCK FOUR

The dead man who haunts all our futures

Matthew Goniwe? Just one more death. Just one more death that could shake our country. ANTON HARBER reports on the Cradock community leader, pictured on the right, who was…

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  • Anton Harber
19 min read