{"id":48397,"date":"2026-10-19T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48397"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:39:31","slug":"former-sa-president-mbeki-appears-before-khampepe-commission","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-sa-president-mbeki-appears-before-khampepe-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SA President Mbeki appears before Khampepe Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) former President Thabo Mbeki is appearing before the judicial commission, the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry today, as questions persist over whether political interference blocked the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes referred by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">AfriForum Chief Executive Officer Kallie Kriel says the organisation is attending the proceedings,\u00a0seeking answers,\u00a0and has formally applied for its Private Prosecution Unit head, Advocate Gerrie Nel, to cross-examine Mbeki.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Mbeki&#8217;s appearance follows the Constitutional Court&#8217;s dismissal of an attempt by him and former President Jacob Zuma to have commission chair Justice Sisi Khampepe recuse herself.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15310,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48397","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Former President Thabo Mbeki is appearing before Khampepe","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48397","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\/48397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48399,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48397\/revisions\/48399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}