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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michelle Gumede

South Africa's apartheid-era crimes inquiry is delayed over legal objections

South Africa Apartheid Crimes - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

An inquiry into allegations that South Africa's Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was postponed on its first day Monday over objections to one of the inquiry's lawyers.

President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the inquiry in April after decades of pressure from families of victims who say post-apartheid governments have failed them by not prosecuting those responsible. The country's racist system of apartheid officially ended in 1994.

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