JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An inquiry into allegations that South Africa’s Black-led governments interfered with investigations into apartheid-era crimes was postponed on its first day Monday over objections to one of the inquiry’s lawyers.

President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the inquiry in April after decades of pressure from families of victims who say post-apartheid governments have failed them by not prosecuting those responsible. The country’s racist system of apartheid officially ended in 1994.

The National Prosecuting Authority on Monday argued that Ishmael Semenya, the inquiry’s chief evidence leader, was compromised because he previously advised on a former prosecuting policy for apartheid-era crimes that was declared unconstitutional.

The inquiry’s head, Judge Sisi Khampepe, ordered th

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