CRL Rights Commission apologises for delays in releasing July 2021 unrest hearing reports

DURBAN - The CRL Rights Commission has apologised for delays in releasing the July 2021 unrest investigative hearing reports. 

The commission, together with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) are on Monday revealing their findings on the hearings held three year ago.

Both Chapter 9 institutions investigated the violence in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal where over 350 people died.

The disruption came after former President Jacob Zuma was incarcerated.

CRL CEO Edward Mafadza: "In the context, it is appropriate to apologise to communities and families that had actually waited for this report for this long. In-depth consultations with relevant stakeholders and slow responses from other parties that needed to furnish to commission with information in order to complete the reports has been part of the contributory factors that led us to some delays in releasing these reports."

He added that changes within the commission were also to blame for the delays. 

"In the process, some commissioners who were involved in this matter had taken up some calls to serve to serve the country in other spaces, while others, the term that was allocated to them in this commission came to an end."