The courts are also getting drawn into the examination of the past, with the attorney generalordering that a series of new inquests be held into controversial deaths.
Mr Habibie has tried to head off demands for a commercial witch-hunt by ordering a more general inquiry into corruption, headed by the attorney-general's office.
It was Mr Simelane who, as director-general of the justice ministry, drafted a letter ordering Vusi Pikoli, the then NPA boss, to drop his prosecution of Jackie Selebi, the police chief, on corruption charges.