Apartheid Crimes

Advocate Trish Matzke, testifying before the TRC Cases Inquiry in Johannesburg, reiterated her 2018 assertion that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has 'dismally failed'…

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

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

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

Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars

Another apartheid-era death will be investigated after NPA pressured to finally act

Life moves at a heady pace in South Africa and with it the march of history. In dealing with the sins of yesterday we must realise that we have to also deal with the sins of…

Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings during apartheid

Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot

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

Fifty years ago, the anti-apartheid activist was killed in police custody. His family fought to survive after his death, and now they want justice.

In early 2018 the witness reversed his decision to give evidence about his last hours alive after the Hawks were 2 weeks late to take his statement

Colonel James Taylor will not be brought to book for his role in the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee because of delays in getting the case to court

A new inquest may prove a family’s belief that their brother was murdered by apartheid police

SAPS will pay legal costs for three apartheid era security policemen who stand accused of murdering Umkhonto weSizwe fighter Nokuthula Simelane