Zuma, Mbeki hid secrets from court, Khampepe finds.

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SOUTH AFRICA’S FORMER PRESIDENTS ARE RUNNING FROM THE TRUTH. Their last-minute legal games are blocking justice for apartheid’s victims—and the families are OUTRAGED.

Advocate Howard Varney, speaking for grieving families, delivered a bombshell accusation at the Khampepe Commission. He said former presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki are under a “MORAL OBLIGATION” to reveal what they know about the stalled prosecutions of apartheid-era killers. “We call on them to RETURN to this inquiry,” he demanded. But instead of showing up, the ex-leaders are filing one legal challenge after another to SHUT IT DOWN.

Zuma and Mbeki already FAILED in bids to remove the evidence leader and the judge chairing the inquiry. Now, Zuma has rushed to the high court in a desperate new attempt to force Judge Sisi Khampepe’s recusal. Mbeki plans to do the same. The families call this an “ELEVENTH-HOUR” move meant to DERAIL the entire process. They are right.

This is political obstruction, plain and simple. The commission was only formed after President Cyril Ramaphosa faced the threat of legal action. He suddenly wanted “closure for the families.” But the inquiry has been plagued by delays from the start. The question is: WHO BENEFITS from this silence?

Varney stated the painful truth: for many families, it’s already “too little too late.” Perpetrators, witnesses, and loved ones have DIED. Cases are “dead and buried.” The damage is done. He accused the state of a “MASSIVE DENIAL OF JUSTICE” and called the post-apartheid period “one of the most SHAMEFUL times in South African history.”

Now, look at the pattern. Mbeki publicly supported prosecutions, but his own Cabinet members, like former police boss Jackie Selebi, were reportedly opposed. Zuma attacks Judge Khampepe’s credibility, claiming “personal animosity” because she ruled against him in the past. This isn’t about legal procedure. It’s about EVADING ACCOUNTABILITY.

The families and the nation deserve one thing: FULL, PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY. Varney demanded to know if there was a “SECRET AGREEMENT” between apartheid generals and ANC officials to bury the past. Who made a deal while the victims’ families wept?

Every delay, every legal trick, is another betrayal of those who died for freedom. The powerful are hiding the truth, and a nation’s healing is being sacrificed.



Edited for Kayitsi.com

Author: Kayitsi.com

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