# Former president Thabo Mbeki and ex-Justice minister Brigitte Mabandla have approached the High Court in Pretoria to intervene in a landmark 167-million-rand constitutional damages case. The lawsuit, brought by 25 survivors and families of apartheid-era victims, challenges the state’s failure to prosecute cases referred by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Representing them, senior advocate Ngwako Maenetje argues Mbeki and Mabandla did not interfere with, or suppress prosecutions, denying any political interference:
Mbeki and Mabandla seek to intervene in apartheid constitutional damages case [SOUND]
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