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Marianne Thamm

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Marianne Thamm

    ‘I just fed them’ — Jürgen Kögl, businessman who facilitated ‘secret’ post-TRC meetings (opens the original)

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    When former apartheid-era generals and the new ANC government met for secret talks about post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions between 1998 and 2004, it was Namibian-born businessman Jürgen Kögl who ‘hosted’ the opposing forces at his home in Johannesburg. Seated across the dinner table sat former “enemies” – apartheid’s enforcers, the powerful generals alongside former president FW de Klerk and the top echelons of ANC leadership. The men (for they were mostly men)

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Marianne Thamm

    Saw nothing, heard nothing, former justice minister Jeff Radebe tells inquiry (opens the original)

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    Former justice minister Jeff Radebe tells the Khampepe Commission he knew nothing about alleged deals halting apartheid-era prosecutions and recalls no intervention over delayed cases. Senior ANC leader and former minister of justice Jeff Radebe has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) prosecutions that he was unaware of “any formal or informal agreements” engineered to halt the process. Radebe was appointed by former president Jacob

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Marianne Thamm

    Reimagining SA’s true heritage somewhere over the rainbow beyond roots, rituals, myths, fairy tales (opens the original)

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    Today South Africans should acknowledge that all fairy tales come to an end and a more realistic and factual origin story has begun to write itself. “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Dorothy says when she arrives in the magical land in the 1939 Hollywood film The Wizard of Oz. The scene applies to the term “rainbow nation” for South Africa, which may have served a vital existential purpose 30 years ago at the dawn of democracy, uniting a fiercely divided country, bu

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Marianne Thamm

    What would Mandela do? Lessons for Thabo Mbeki and SA (opens the original)

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    Former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma have launched several legal actions aimed at delaying testifying before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) prosecutions for apartheid-era perpetrators. What would Mandela have done? Contempt for the black body and details of the gruesome sadism meted out over the apartheid era have resurfaced over the past 90 days the Khampepe Commission has been sitting. This inquiry – a metaphorical full

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Marianne Thamm

    SAPS refusal to pay legal costs stalled post-TRC Simelane prosecution, ex-minister tells Khampepe Commission (opens the original)

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    Former police minister Nathi Nhleko has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions that the refusal to fund the legal fees of retired SAPS accused in the Nokuthula Simelane matter had a direct impact on the post-TRC prosecution of the case. In 2016, when four retired former apartheid-era Crime Intelligence members were set to appear in court for the 1983 abduction, murder and disappearance of ANC courier Nokuthula Simelane, the process g

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