{"id":47951,"date":"2026-10-14T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47951"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:32:04","slug":"sas-former-president-zumas-trc-testimony-postponed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-former-president-zumas-trc-testimony-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s former President Zuma\u2019s TRC testimony postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Former President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases Inquiry has been postponed to a date yet to be confirmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The postponement follows Zuma&#8217;s admission in hospital and was an agreement between his lawyers and the judicial commission, chaired by Justice Sisi Khampepe. Zuma was expected to appear <span dir=\"ltr\">on October 22.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>His testimony was to follow that of former SA President Thabo Mbeki who will be testifying <span dir=\"ltr\">on October 19<\/span> and 20.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The commission has been tasked with investigating claims of deliberate delays and political interference in the investigation and prosecution of apartheid-era crimes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47951","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The postponement follows Zuma's admission in hospital.","published_date":"","news_description":"The postponement follows Zuma's admission in hospital.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47953,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47951\/revisions\/47953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}