State should not have paid legal costs for apartheid security branch officers, says Cele
Former police minister Bheki Cele told the Khampempe Commission that the state should not have paid the legal fees of former apartheid-era Security Branch officers facing prosecution for crimes committed under apartheid. “My position then continues to be that the SAPS ought not to have extended monies to pay for the legal costs of lawyers who were, in essence, providing legal representation to members of the SAPS, like Colonel [Johan] Botha who had tortured, kidnapped and killed innocent peop...
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Former police minister Bheki Cele told the Khampempe Commission that the state should not have paid the legal fees of former apartheid-era Security Branch officers facing prosecution for crimes committed under apartheid. “My position then continues to be that the SAPS ought not to have extended monies to pay for the legal costs of lawyers who were, in essence, providing legal representation to members of the SAPS, like Colonel [Johan] Botha who had tortured, kidnapped and killed innocent peop...
