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The Department of Justice (DOJ) took several years to respond positively to SAHA’s requests for documents related to investigations undertaken by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
After extensive lobbying and repeated communication, the DOJ released the documents described in the catalogue attached here, including on:
• The murder of Dulcie September
• The attempted murder of Godfrey Motsepe
• The Khan Committee’s report on Secret Projects
• The murder of Robert and Jean Smit
Part of the release was the TRC’s investigation into the murders of Robert and Jean Smit. Open Secrets discovered that the document provided was incomplete. Fortunately, journalist Alet Wright, who had investigated the murders over a period of time, provided several of the annexures missing from the DOJ’s document. All of the documents gathered by Open Secrets are thus available in this archive, as well as a summary of the information provided in these documents and the South African Police’s investigative diary, also gathered in the process of this investigation.
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