Marianne Thamm

On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, former minister of justice Brigitte Mabandla told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry that she had never made a phone call on 11 November 2004 to then special director of national public prosecutions Dr Silas Ramaite, calling... See more

One of the attachments to the bundle of papers former president Thabo Mbeki submitted to the Khampepe Commission of inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions was a sound clip of a speech broadcast on the ANC's Radio Freedom on the eve of the burial of th... See more

The four UDF activists, we now know, were abducted by members of the security police on 27 June 1985, assaulted, stabbed, strangled with telephone wire and shot before their bodies were burned an mutilated. In 1993, at the reopened inquest, Judge Neville ... See more

At the Khampepe Commission, Thabo Mbeki rejects claims of political interference, explaining the ANC's amnesty bid and distinguishing presidential pardons from prosecution decisions. Former president Thabo Mbeki has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry... See more

At the Khampepe Commission, Thabo Mbeki rejects claims of political interference, explaining the ANC's amnesty bid and distinguishing presidential pardons from prosecution decisions. Former president Thabo Mbeki has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry... See more