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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

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…

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)

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

Testimony: Gibson Njenje (left) and Moe Shaik told the Zondo commission that former intelligence minister Siyabonga Cwele warned them off investigating the Guptas. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla

Real-life spy drama reads like a novel

How Moe Shaik went from ANC spy to boss of the secret service in the democratic South Africa

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

Tormented: Former Security Branch operative Paul Erasmus aims to tell the truth about what happened during
the apartheid years.
(Paul Botes/M&G)

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

FW de Klerk (below left) at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Gallo Images/Rodger Bosch)

Cradock Four back to haunt De Klerk

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

Truth seeking: Neil Aggett’s sister Jill Burger wants to know if her brother really hanged himself in his prison cell. (Paul Botes/ M&G)

Suicide or not, police killed Aggett

The trade unionist was interrogated by the police and, 70 days later, was found dead in his cell