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South Africa: #TimolInquest - 'Former Security Branch Police Officer Should Be Charged With Murder'
News24Wire, 2 August 2017
The lawyer representing the family of anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol, has said he will be asking the North Gauteng High Court to recommend that criminal charges be brought… Read more »
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South Africa: Former Policeman Says He Saw Activist Timol Jump Out of Window
News24Wire, 31 July 2017
A former security branch police officer, said to have been the last person to see anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol alive, has described in detail Timol's last seconds alive and… Read more »
Apartheid Activist Jumped From Window - Former South African Cop
Former security branch police officer Joao Jan Rodrigues has testified before the North Gauteng High Court where he described the final moments of anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Timol's life. The National Prosecuting Authority re-opened the inquest into Timol's alleged 1971 suicide after a private investigation commissioned by his family uncovered new evidence.
Ahmed Timol, late South African Communist Party member who was arrested and interrogated by special branch police at John Vorster Square when he reportedly "fell" to his death. The family has succeeded in having an inquest into the death that was ruled a suicide for 44 years.
