The families of slain student activists have been waiting an agonising 40 years for justice and closure
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 that he was badly assaulted to exonerate the security police torturers who killed him. Haffejee, a Pietermartizburg-born dentist, died in detention at the Brighton Beach police station […]
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
How Moe Shaik went from ANC spy to boss of the secret service in the democratic South Africa
Another apartheid-era death will be investigated after NPA pressured to finally act
A former SB operative, Paul Erasmus, talks about the torture of a young trade unionist, Neil Aggett, and the machinations at John Vorster Square
Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings
during apartheid
The trade unionist was interrogated by the police and, 70 days later, was found dead in his cell