Kubayi pours cold water over TRC sabotage claims

By Simon Nare

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has shot down suggestions that there is deliberate sabotage to prosecute apartheid era atrocities, saying there was no evidence pointing to any individuals.

Answering questions at the National Council of Provinces on the performance of the National Prosecuting Authority, Kubayi said she had gone through all the information presented to her since she became minister of that department, and she had found nothing.

The minister was adamant that there was no deliberate sabotage of cases related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and that every NPA boss since the dawn of democracy had acted in good faith in relation to the apartheid era cases.

She said if there were any guilty individuals, they would have been identified.

“Consistently members have been insinuating that there has been. Where I am sitting as the minister, I have looked at information before me,