{"id":92697,"date":"2025-11-10T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/trc-inquiry-stalls-amid-recusal-application-plans"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:56:48","slug":"trc-inquiry-stalls-amid-recusal-application-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/trc-inquiry-stalls-amid-recusal-application-plans","title":{"rendered":"TRC Inquiry Stalls Amid Recusal Application Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Commission of Inquiry into Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) cases has stalled, as some parties in the matter plan to bring a recusal application.<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings kicked off on Monday morning at the Sci-Bono Centre in Newtown.<\/p>\n<p>The judicial commission will determine whether attempts were made to prevent the investigation and prosecution of apartheid-era crimes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 27 years since the last TRC report was submitted to then-President Thabo Mbeki with a recommendation for 3,000 cases to be prosecuted by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).<\/p>\n<p>Family members of victims of Apartheid-era crimes attended proceedings, hopeful that almost three decades since their cases were referred for prosecution, answers would be provided for why they have not made it tocourt.<\/p>\n<p>But the commission\u2019s chair, retired Constitutional Court Justice Sisi Kampepe, started proceedings by highlighting a request by the NPA and the Department of Justice for the recusal of chief evidence leader Advocate Ishmael Semenya.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Makhosi Gwala, on behalf of the NPA, pointed out an apparent conflict because of Semenya\u2019s previous links to the NPA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are simply saying because Adv Semenya (SC) advised the NPA, gave opinions, even to the extent of representing the NPA then on those basis he should be disqualified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The commission has given the parties time to make a formal recusal application.<\/p>\n<p>Semenya\u2019s recusal will be argued in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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