South Africa has an investigation into the alleged drive of apartheid prosecution | News

This decision comes after the survivors and relatives of the victims of apartheid crimes launched a judicial case against the government of Ramaphosa.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the investigation to determine whether the previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked surveys and prosecution against crimes of the apartheid eratake a step that the survivors and families of those who have been killed have demanded for decades.

The historical move will discuss the allegations of an “inappropriate influence in the delay or end of the investigations” against the post-Apartheid governments led by the African National Congress Party (ANC), the Ramaphosa office announced on Wednesday in a statement.

“President Ramaphosa appreciates the anxiety and frustration of the families of the victims, who are fighting for so many years for justice,” said Ramaphosa’s office.

The announcement by the president of a judicial inquiry commission came after 25 survivors and relatives of the victims of apartheid crimes launched a legal case Against his government in January, asking for damages.

They allegedly alleged that successive South African governments since the late 1990s had failed to investigate the murders properly, disappearances and other unresolved crimes at the time of forced racial segregation despite the recommendations made by the Committee of Truth and Pros-Apartheid reconciliation.

The commission was set up in 1996 by the president of the time, Nelson Mandela, under the chairmanship of his colleague Nobel Peace Prize, Desmond Tutu.

Its mission was to expose and record crimes of the Apartheid era and give some of the officials to confess their role, including members of the state security forces of the apartheid government who have been involved in many murders.

The ANC was the organization at the forefront of the battle against the system of domination of white minorities and led South Africa to democracy when apartheid ended in 1994. But the governments led by the ANC have since been criticized by some to prioritize national reconciliation before the victims.

One of the most important unresolved cases is that of Cradock fourA group of black anti-apartheid activists who were kidnapped and murdered by the security forces in 1985. Their bodies were burned and security agents were suspected of having tortured them.

No one was prosecuted for the killings and the circumstances of the deaths have never been fully revealed. It is among the thousands of crimes during apartheid where victims and families have still not seen justice.

Lukhanyo Calata, whose strong father was one of the four Cradock, is part of the group that carried the current South African government in January.

Calata said at the start of this judicial case that the successive South African governments since the administration of President Thabo Mbeki from 1999 to 2008 had not acted on the commission’s recommendations and had refused justice to the victims and their families.

He and other relatives say that government ministers intervened to prevent the investigation and prosecution against crimes.