Thabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry

Date: 11 Jan 1996
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

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.

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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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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Thabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013234

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