Outside the Cape Town Convention Centre, 100 Khulumani members demonstrated holding up red cards as part of Khulumani's Red Card campaign against the President. They could not attend the breakfast, priced at more than R700 per person.

It is now evident that for the 13 years after the TRC handed its first report to President Mandela, the Department of Justice has not informed the President on the critical importance of the President's Fund and the urgency to compensate TRC victims and assist thousands of victims and their families and the communities in which they live.

The President's Fund has been established in terms of Section 42 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995 (Act 34 of 1995). The fund is located within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.

The purpose of the Fund is to compensate ALL victims of the TRC, including their families and dozens of communities who still suffer the consequences of intense acts of violence and destruction during apartheid.

Community rehabilitation is one of the TRC’s main recommendations accepted by government. However, with a President ignorant of the President’s Fund, how will government ever implement reparations in dozens of communities across South Africa?

There is clearly no commitment from either the Department of Justice or the Presidency to implement the TRC recommendations and to utilise the President’s Fund in this regard.

RED CARD PRESIDENT ZUMA!

In a second question, Shirley Gunn asked the President why government has not yet withdrawn former Justice minister Penual Maduna's affidavit in United State’s courts, which opposes the Khulumani’s lawsuit on behalf of apartheid victims of gross human rights abuses against multinational corporations who aided and abetted the apartheid government.

Again the President said he would try to find out more information...