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Court date finally set for death in detention Haffejee inquest

Article Paddy Harper - 25 Feb 2020

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

De Klerk now admits apartheid was a crime against humanity

Article Lester Kiewit - 17 Feb 2020

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

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Haffejee inquest: Security branch operative dies days after decision to reopen case

Article Paddy Harper - 20 Aug 2019

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

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Ramaphosa urged to establish judicial inquiry into lack of apartheid prosecutions

Article Raeesa Pather - 14 Jan 2019

Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS

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Civic education might be the future

Article Dr Zamantungwa Khumalo - 19 Jul 2018

In a democracy, this means learning about self-governance

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SAPS ordered to pay legal fees of security cops accused of murdering MK fighter

Article Raeesa Pather - 6 Jun 2018

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

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Timol inquest highlights striking similarities to present day South Africa

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Oct 2017

The experiences of activists who were tortured during apartheid and those tortured after 1994 are chillingly similar.

Timol probe unfolds like a whodunit

Article Raeesa Pather - 4 Aug 2017

Who to believe: The apartheid cops or the doctors who say it wasn’t possible for the activist to jump?

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Timol inquest: Reliving the horror

Article Niren Tolsi - 30 Jun 2017

Salim Essop recalls how he was tortured by the police in 1971. His friend Ahmed Timol died in their custody

US court considers appeal against apartheid lawsuit

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Jan 2010

A US court on Monday heard an appeal by major corporations attempting to stop a lawsuit over their role in South Africa's apartheid-era regime.

State backs apartheid victims’ case

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Sep 2009

Apartheid victims suing international companies for “aiding and abetting” will consider turning down an out-of-court settlement.

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