The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided to hold a formal inquest in a case relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Senior State Advocates from the National Prosecuting ...

If the dirty, beige walls of the old farmhouse at the infamous Vlakplaas farm, 20km west of Pretoria, could talk, what would the ghosts of the past say? On Freedom Day, while South Africans were ...

Struggle for justice symbolises limitations of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose hearings began 30 years ago Darkness had fallen on 27 June 1985 when Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo ...

Testifying on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at the Khampepe Commission probing alleged political interference in post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) prosecutions, Masutha – the first former ...

A former apartheid operative has appeared in the Benoni Regional Court on charges linked to the deaths of 15 young anti-apartheid recruits in cases investigated by the Truth and Reconciliation ...

The Vlakplaas operation had a brief mention in an amnesty statement during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But it appears in greater detail in Dirk Coetzee's unpublished memoir, ...

Johannesburg — RELATIVES of activists who disappeared at the hands of the security forces during apartheid gathered at Vlakplaas in Erasmia yesterday mark the International Day of the Disappeared. The ...

Dirk Coetzee, the former commander of an apartheid-era death squad in South Africa, has died of kidney failure at the age of 57. Granted amnesty for his crimes (including murder) by the Truth and ...