Despite demands for justice for apartheid crimes, authorities still dragging their heels

A rising chorus of demands for justice has swelled since the inquest ruling that Ahmed Timol’s death-plunge was murderWinnie Mandela gave her infamous necklacing speech in 1986 — a year in which an SA civil war seemed a distinct possibility. Picture: ARENA HOLDINGS ARCHIVES

Anger has been further provoked by revelations of two ANC deputy presidents’ roles in preventing the hundreds of prosecutions of perpetrators that should, by statute, have resulted from the recommendations of the amnesty committee of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission . Former TRC advocate Howard Varney has noted that on June 6, 1985 a State Security Council subcommittee meeting in Port Elizabeth chaired by Vlok, then deputy law and order minister, sought recommendations on what to do about activist teacher Matthew Goniwe.

Though he then tried to backtrack, Vlok’s admission marks a new twist in his convoluted grappling with his own culpability. His journey took him to the arrogant heights of the securocrat elite by 1986, then down to his knees in 2006, publicly washing the feet of the widows and mothers of the “Mamelodi Ten” — 10 youths lured to their deaths by his policemen two decades earlier — in apparent Christian contrition.

The aim of the talks, conducted in a “very social” atmosphere at the presidency and several private residences, was, according to the surviving military man present, Maj-Gen Dirk Marais, in my lengthy taped interview, to preventprosecutions — on either side — resulting from the TRC.

Thanks to the overrated old man, Trevor Manuel, Frank Chikane, Thabo Mbeki, Lesetja Kganyago, Maria Ramos, Tito Mboweni, Ramaphosa and the whole bunch who sold us to apartheid beneficiary big multi national companies like Anglo American and other leeches. We are here, screwed!

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