Apartheid chain of command: ‘I know everything,’ Eugene de Kock tells TRC inquiry

Daily Maverick | 26.10.2026 14:01
The man who took the fall for apartheid-era atrocities, former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions that while he served 20 years in C-Max, no one in the prosecutorial authority approached him to provide the names, times and dates of those further up the chain of command who gave the orders.