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Former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils has challenged the account of former NPA boss Vusi Pikoli of an alleged order to halt an investigation into apartheid error crimes. Testifying at the TRC cases inquiry today, Kasrils recalled a clash between Pikoli and late Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi in 2007. The fight allegedly followed a news report in which the NPA was preparing to.

Prosecute ANC leaders. Casrals has been testifying before the TRC cases inquiry, which is probing delays in the prosecution of apartheid error crimes. Demakatsu Lishoro reports. Ronnie Castro says his memory might fail in part, but he vividly recalls a fiery clash between Pikoli and Selebi after the news article stated the NPA was preparing to prosecute ANC leaders. He says the exchange was so intense that the words the gloves are off still ring a bell.

In a China shop, we were at each other. I was astonished. His pushback against Bikoli's claim that Mabantla told him to stop an investigation into the fabrication of a letter linking the NPA to planned prosecutions. There is no possible way that a minister, Minister Mabantla or whoever, could make such a statement. Can it be believed that a key minister would actually be so utterly serious?

It was after this confrontation that the NPA reached a dead end in the prosecution of TLC cases, according to Picoli's evidence. Dimakazo Leshoro, eyewitness news, Johannesburg. And the World Health Organization has warned that Africa is facing a complex Ebola outbreak. The warning comes after the virus crossed from East Africa into Nigeria. This week, Nigeria reported its first case of the current strain of Ebola. The outbreak began in the DRC and has become the deadliest.