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Filmmaker Enver Samuel began in mainstream media but shifted to doing social comment documentaries that create a meaningful impact.
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Enver Samuel: Documenting change through storytelling

Enver Samuel tells of his decades-long quest to tell stories about social justice from the apartheid era

  • Earl Joseph
9 min read
Police Minister Bheki Cele.
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Police refusal to pay legal costs of former officers means some apartheid-era cases cannot be closed

The families of slain student activists have been waiting an agonising 40 years for justice and closure

  • Zaid Kimmie
5 min read
Former apartheid security police officer João Rodrigues, who was charged with the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, died at his home on Monday. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
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João Rodrigues, apartheid police clerk accused of 1971 Timol murder, dies

The former apartheid police officer who was charged with the murder of Ahmed Timol ‘saved’ by the grave

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read
Justice delayed: A poster outside the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg calls on people to share their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Rodger Bosch)
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A renewed commitment to TRC cases

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.

  • Tymon Smith
9 min read
Former Security Branch police officer Joao Rodrigues during his first appearance in court over the murder of activist Ahmed Timol. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Sowetan/ Alon Skuy)
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João Rodrigues is running out of road to appeal

The former apartheid security police officer’s attempt to use political interference as a reason not to stand trial for murder has failed

  • Tymon Smith
7 min read
International solidarity: A demonstration in memory of Dulcie September in Paris, France after her murder in 1988. The banner readers: ‘Dulcie was our friend’. (Georges Merillon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)
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Review: ‘Murder in Paris’: Who killed Dulcie September?

Fast-paced and densely structured, a new documentary retrieves Dulcie September from the confines of ‘forgotten apartheid hero’

  • Wilfred Okiche
3 min read
Freedom fighter: Dulcie September was shot dead outside the ANC offices in Paris in 1988. Her killer has never been identified.
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The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

  • Enver Samuel
4 min read
Former apartheid security police officer João Rodrigues, who was charged with the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, died at his home on Monday. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS

João Rodrigues, apartheid-era crimes and the question of a blanket amnesty

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

  • Atilla Kisla
6 min read
As a human rights lawyer, during the apartheid ere, Bizos dedicated his career to fighting for fundamental human rights.
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George Bizos dies at 92

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…

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
4 min read
Majorie Jobson, a commissioner, at Khulumani support group, holds case files for victims of Apartheid in their offices on April 13, 2010, in central Johannesburg, South Africa. Khulumani is involved among other things in a lawsuit against Daimler AG, with complaints brought forward by victims of Apartheid. The plaintiffs argue that Daimler sold vehicles to the old South African government, and they were used by the police and security forces to keep up the Apartheid regime. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
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Apartheid criminals still at large

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

  • Ilham Rawoot
9 min read
Tormented: Former Security Branch operative Paul Erasmus aims to tell the truth about what happened during the apartheid years. (Paul Botes/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Inside the Security Branch: Torture between brandy and boerewors

A former SB operative, Paul Erasmus, talks about the torture of a young trade unionist, Neil Aggett, and the machinations at John Vorster Square

  • Janet Smith
12 min read
Neil Aggett died in police custody in 1982. (Gallo)
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Inquest into Neil Aggett’s death begins

The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
The two main interrogators in the Ahmed Timol case were both alive for many years and the family knew their whereabouts, but both died before that inquest was reopened. (Image via www.ahmedtimol.co.za)
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Can the NPA save face on unresolved apartheid deaths?

Doors have opened for the Timol, Simelane and Aggett families but doubts still linger about the NPA’s behaviour and culpability

  • Tymon Smith
9 min read
Former apartheid security police officer João Rodrigues, who was charged with the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, died at his home on Monday. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
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Application denied: Rodrigues to stand trial for Timol murder

João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol

  • Aaisha Dadi Patel
5 min read
Neil Aggett died in police custody in 1982. (Gallo)
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NPA to re-examine Neil Aggett’s death

The Minister of Justice announced that an investigation will reopen over the death of Aggett’s death

  • Tymon Smith
10 min read