South African Court Rules Apartheid Activist Was Murdered

The High Court in Pretoria has handed down judgment in the inquest into Ahmed Timol's death, ruling that the anti-Apartheid activist was pushed from the 10th floor of the John Vorster Square Police when he died in 1971.

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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 (file photo).

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