A public inquiry should be held into why government adopted a policy not to prosecute hundreds of people implicated in human rights abuses at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This is the plea of a legal representative of the family of Doctor Hoosen Haffejee, a struggle activist and dentist at a Durban hospital who died in police custody in 1977.

<p>A public inquiry should be held into why government adopted a policy not to prosecute hundreds of people implicated in human rights abuses at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This is the plea of a legal representative of the family of Doctor Hoosen Haffejee, a struggle activist and dentist at a Durban hospital who died in police custody in 1977.</p>

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