The families of slain student activists have been waiting an agonising 40 years for justice and closure
The former apartheid police officer who was charged with the murder of Ahmed Timol ‘saved’ by the grave
The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.
The former apartheid security police officer’s attempt to use political interference as a reason not to stand trial for murder has failed
Fast-paced and densely structured, a new documentary retrieves Dulcie September from the confines of ‘forgotten apartheid hero’
Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness
The former Security Branch officer is asking the SCA for a permanent stay of appeal in the prosecution of the murder of Ahmed Timol in 1971
Renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela and other struggle icons during the treason trial and Rivonia trial, represented families at the TRC, and later represented Marikana miners’ families, has died
Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity
A former SB operative, Paul Erasmus, talks about the torture of a young trade unionist, Neil Aggett, and the machinations at John Vorster Square
The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982
Doors have opened for the Timol, Simelane and Aggett families but doubts still linger about the NPA’s behaviour and culpability
João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol
The Minister of Justice announced that an investigation will reopen over the death of Aggett’s death
Former truth and reconciliation commissioners are entering a court battle to see a former policeman prosecuted
The NPA has denied that it played any role in delaying the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes, but concedes politicians interfered in its decisions
Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS
The Timol family wants to stop former Security Branch clerk Joao Rodrigues from being granted a permanent stay of prosecution
Families of slain activists are fighting against an apartheid-era cop’s attempt to avoid prosecution permanently
Tilana Stander says she has not spoken to her father for years but helped the Timol Foundation find him
Rodrigues had attempted to halt proceedings permanently
João Rodrigues, who is accused of murdering anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in police custody in 1971, will stand trial in 2019
The NPA has, until now, failed to prosecute perpetrators who didn’t get amnesty from the TRC
Former apartheid cop Joao Rodrigues is yet to face trial for his alleged role in the death of Ahmed Timol 47 years ago
A new inquest may prove a family’s belief that their brother was murdered by apartheid police
The National Prosecuting Authority will reopen the inquest into the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee, who died in police custody in 1977
A pre-trial hearing into the torture and murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol is set down for Tuesday
Rodrigues appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on charges of murder and defeating the ends of justice
Almost 46 years since his death, the high court last year found that Timol died at the hands of apartheid security branch police while in detention
With the Timol inquest findings overturned, there’s hope that the truth about Hoosen Haffejee will be known
South Africa’s TRC was not enough to deal with the traumas inflicted by the apartheid state
Readers write in about Ahmed Timol, the issues that hinder students’ success, and President Zuma’s statue in Nigeria