Damages should be paid to victims of apartheid-era violations: Maduna

Damages should be paid to victims of apartheid-era violations: Maduna. Skip to content Menu Home | Damages should be paid to victims of apartheid-era violations: Maduna Former Justice Minister Dr Penuell Maduna pictured at the TRC Cases Inquiry in Newtown, Johannesburg on 21 July 2026.

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Image Credits : X | @TRC_inquiry SABC News 8 September 2026, 17:38 [SAST] Former Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says that government should pay constitutional damages to the families and victims of apartheid-era human rights violations. Under cross examination by families of victims of apartheid at the TRC Cases Inquiry, Maduna insisted the ATT was not aimed at interfering in the work of the NPA. The Judicial Commission chaired by Justice Sisi Khampepe is expected to determine if reparations should be paid to survivors and their families as part of its Terms of Reference.

Maduna says the democratic state is obliged to take on the responsibilities of its predecessor. They were shot as part of uMkhonto weSizwe the real Umkhonto, they have no homes they have no food and I don’t know what to say to those comrades. ” Maduna defended the establishment of an interdepartmental Amnesty Task Team (ATT) by then-Director General of Justice Vusi Pikoli in February 2004. This is despite the ATT ultimately drafting an amended prosecutions policy for the TRC cases, which some within the NPA saw as bestowing apartheid perpetrators with a back door amnesty.

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He was speaking on day 83 of the public hearings of the TRC Cases Inquiry in Newtown, Johannesburg on Tuesday. “State succession is that we assumed even the responsibilities of the Gideon Niewoods and all such evil people I am saying this because I also have relatives that have expectations that the state will one day step forward and help them, I worked with young comrades who can’t find jobs today because they can’t work, they are in wheelchairs.

“It was not about protecting people at all, how do we get to the information etc. There were people who were armed with tons of information who knew what was happening it this country and who knew what they themselves had done who instructed them to do it etc. There is none in the NPA who could put all that information together it was an impossible task. ” The ATT’s implementation body, the Interdepartmental Task Team (ITT), ceased meeting in early 2007 after Pikoli, then the NDPP, complained that it sought to infringe on the NPA’s prosecutorial independence.

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We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Who would have thought that an a AI agent would escape containment? Photograph: Dado Ruvić/ReutersView image in fullscreenWho would have thought that an a AI agent would escape containment? Photograph: Dado Ruvić/ReutersOpenAI releases new AI agent – after admitting one went roguePlus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American summer holiday.

Today in tech, we’re examining OpenAI’s new model release and the Silicon Valley’s monopoly power, and wondering why Brits and Americans have such vastly different opinions about surveillance cameras. OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ even as a grim future emergesOpenAI released a new artificial intelligence model this week, Astra, just as more concerning reports are emerging about hacking by a rogue agent in July. “It’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era,” he said.

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But if the announcement sparked amazement, it was as much cause of concern. In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agent, a type of software capable of carrying out tasks autonomous in response to human instruction, had gone rogue during safety testing and hacked a developer forum, Hugging Face. Last week, news broke that the agent had not only hacked Hugging Face, but also a German website, and that different AI agents had staged conversations with each other and seemed to have discussed how to collaborate on breaking containment.

OpenAi had delayed Astra’s release due to concerns over its cybersecurity capabilities, even announcing a supposed pause on developing its AI in the middle of August. That pause seems to have been short-lived, only two weeks. The combination of Astra’s capabilities and OpenAI’s recent disclosures points to a worrying future. If the model is better at hacking than its predecessors and smarter than a human, will the future consist of one cyber-attack after another, forever, launched autonomously and without oversight, by rogue AIs? (Please not. )OpenAI itself has warned of this future.

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