Pretoria - South African prosecutors will spend at least six years dealing with criminal cases raised in the recently published Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, a top official said yesterday.
"At a thumbsuck, we are looking at six years of prosecutions," the Deputy National Director of Prosecutions, Mr Jan d'Oliveira, said. He said cases were already being prepared against two apartheid-era generals and Ms Winnie MadikizelaMandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela.
The TRC report, compiled after 30 months of investigations into gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1994, lists groups and individuals responsible for apartheid-era crimes.