Nomgcobo Jiba faces intense scrutiny over the missing Cradock Four docket, declaring she is being scapegoated and urging respect for families seeking closure in TRC cases.

The former Deputy National Director of National Prosecutions (DNDPP) and later acting NDPP, advocate Nomgcobo Jiba, was implicated in the disappearance of the Cradock Four docket in a May 2021 affidavit by advocate Raymond Christopher Macadam, then head of the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) dealing with Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) matters.

In his statement, Macadam claimed that the docket dealing with the Cradock Four murders (Swartskop CR 13/07/1985) had disappeared from the offices of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) after being requested by Jiba's personal assistant in 2013.

Scapegoated

On Wednesday, Jiba told the Khampepe Commission, which is investigating political interference in the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes recommended by the TRC, that she had not been able to find any memorandums requesting the docket and that she was being "scapegoated".

"I never asked for the docket. I am quite upset by the allegation. I am aware of that part of the affidavit of Mr Macadam. It did not go unnoticed because one member of the Cradock Four families deposed to an affidavit which refers to the affidavit of Macadam," she said.

Macadam's affidavit was used by the family of Fort Calata, one of the Cradock Four -- the...