Apartheid chain of command: ‘I know everything,’ Eugene de Kock tells TRC inquiry
The man who took the fall for apartheid-era atrocities, former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions that while he served 20 years in C-Max, no one in the prosecutorial authority approached him to provide the names, times and dates of those further up the chain…
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[Claude] Reports 2 and 3 both cover de Kock's testimony before the inquiry, with the same headline quote, and nothing in them contradicts Report 1.
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