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

Court date finally set for death in detention Haffejee inquest

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

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Former apartheid Security Branch policeman Joao Rodrigues. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
AHMED TIMOL

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

  • Raeesa Pather
3 min read
Joao Rodrigues (Anthony Schultz/M&G)
AHMED TIMOL

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

Rodrigues had attempted to halt proceedings permanently

  • Raeesa Pather
7 min read
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)
AHMED TIMOL

Bruises may solve 40-year mystery

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

  • Raeesa Pather
8 min read