South Africa's first Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate allegations that government ministers and senior police officials were being kept under surveillance by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC) was to undertake the investigation.
eventREF E-0013234Revised
11 January 1996
Thabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
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