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Forensic pathologists exhume the remains of political prisoners from a grave at Rebecca Street Cemetery on December 14, 2016 in Pretoria. The twelve members of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) were buried after they were hanged at the Pretoria Prison (Kgosi Mampuru II Prison) in 1964. The remains of 50 exiled victims of apartheid prosecution will be returned to South Africa from Zimbabwe and Zambia in the next 10 days. (Photo by Veli Nhlapo/Sowetan/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Remains of 50 apartheid freedom fighters to be returned to SA from Zimbabwe and Zambia

The National Prosecuting Authority told MPs it was trying to expedite Truth and Reconciliation cases because it understood victims’ families were losing hope of finding justice…

Rick Turner’s family believes that the truth may come out, 45 years after the academic was assassinated(Photograph courtesy of the Helen Joseph collection at the Historical Papers Research Archive of the University of the Witwatersrand)

New hope in anti-apartheid activist Rick Turner’s murder investigation

The family believes that the truth may come out, 45 years after the academic was assassinated

Police Minister Bheki Cele.

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

At last, light on what happened to Hoosen Haffejee

The reopened inquest into the apartheid activist’s death in 1977 suggests Security Branch officers tortured him, with a then junior officer giving the clearest picture yet of…

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Inquest magistrate covered up Haffejee killing – lawyer

The reopened inquest into the death in detention of Dr Hoosen Haffejee in 1977 has heard that the “pliant” magistrate at the original inquest, Trevor Blunden, ignored evidence…

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Court date finally set for death in detention Haffejee inquest

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

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Bungling Hawks spook Haffejee witness

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

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

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

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

Former apartheid Security Branch policeman Joao Rodrigues. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)

Timol family granted access to oppose apartheid cop’s attempt to ‘escape justice’

The Timol family wants to stop former Security Branch clerk Joao Rodrigues from being granted a permanent stay of prosecution

Activist families fear precedent-setting case by apartheid cop

Families of slain activists are fighting against an apartheid-era cop’s attempt to avoid prosecution permanently

Joao Rodrigues (Anthony Schultz/M&G)

Families, justice minister, NPA challenge Rodrigues’ attempt to escape prosecution

Rodrigues had attempted to halt proceedings permanently

Hope for justice: Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall are building a case to argue that the death of their youngest brother, Hoosen Mia Haffejee, in 1977 was a result of police torture, not suicide. (Rogan Ward/M&G)

Bruises may solve 40-year mystery

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

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Quest for truth paramount for Haffejee family

The National Prosecuting Authority will reopen the inquest into the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee, who died in police custody in 1977

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Detainee’s ‘suicide’ revisited

With the Timol inquest findings overturned, there’s hope that the truth about Hoosen Haffejee will be known