TRC families want Kampepe Inquiry to continue Siya Tsewu Sun, 03/15/2026 - 18:38 JOHANNESBURG - The families of apartheid-era crime victims are frustrated over former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma's bid to remove Justice Sisi Khampepe from the inquiry. They held a joint media briefing earlier. The TRC Cases Inquiry is chaired by retired Justice Sisi Khampepe. Earlier this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa joined former presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki in calling for her to step down. He said he would not oppose the application for her recusal, citing that at the time he appointed her to chair the Inquiry, he was unaware that she had been appointed by the late former president Nelson Mandela as a TRC Commissioner in the 1990s. The court bid by Zuma and Mbeki to have Khampepe step aside, a case that pits judicial independence against political influence, will be argued before a full bench in Johannesburg on Monday and Tuesday. Minister of Human Settlements, Thembi Simelane who’s sister Nokuthula was abducted, tortured, and forcibly disappeared by members of the Security Branch of the South African Police (SAP) in 1983, said for them as families, this was not just another inquiry or commission
