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Filmmaker Enver Samuel began in mainstream media but shifted to doing social comment documentaries that create a meaningful impact.

Enver Samuel: Documenting change through storytelling

Enver Samuel tells of his decades-long quest to tell stories about social justice from the apartheid era

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

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 police clerk accused of 1971 Timol murder, dies

The former apartheid police officer who was charged with the murder of Ahmed Timol ‘saved’ by the grave

Justice delayed: A poster outside the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg calls on people to share their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Rodger Bosch)

A renewed commitment to TRC cases

The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.

Former Security Branch police officer Joao Rodrigues during his first appearance in court over the murder of activist Ahmed Timol. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Sowetan/ Alon Skuy)

João Rodrigues is running out of road to appeal

The former apartheid security police officer’s attempt to use political interference as a reason not to stand trial for murder has failed

International solidarity: A demonstration in memory of Dulcie September in Paris, France after her murder in 1988. The banner readers: ‘Dulcie was our friend’. (Georges Merillon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)

Review: ‘Murder in Paris’: Who killed Dulcie September?

Fast-paced and densely structured, a new documentary retrieves Dulcie September from the confines of ‘forgotten apartheid hero’

Freedom fighter: Dulcie September was shot dead outside the ANC offices in Paris in 1988. Her killer has never been identified.

The Portfolio: ‘Murder in Paris’ director Enver Samuel

Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness

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

As a human rights lawyer, during the apartheid ere, Bizos dedicated his career to fighting for fundamental human rights.

George Bizos dies at 92

Renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela and other struggle icons during the treason trial and Rivonia trial, represented families at the TRC, and…

Majorie Jobson, a commissioner, at Khulumani support group, holds case files for victims of Apartheid in their offices on April 13, 2010, in central Johannesburg, South Africa. Khulumani is involved among other things in a lawsuit  against Daimler AG, with complaints brought forward by victims of Apartheid. The plaintiffs argue that Daimler sold vehicles to the old South African government, and they were used by the police and security forces to keep up the Apartheid regime. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Apartheid criminals still at large

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

Neil Aggett died in police custody in 1982. (Gallo)

Inquest into Neil Aggett’s death begins

The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982

The two main interrogators in the Ahmed Timol case were both alive for many years and the family knew their whereabouts, but both died before that inquest was reopened. (Image via www.ahmedtimol.co.za)

Can the NPA save face on unresolved apartheid deaths?

Doors have opened for the Timol, Simelane and Aggett families but doubts still linger about the NPA’s behaviour and culpability

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)

Application denied: Rodrigues to stand trial for Timol murder

João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol

Neil Aggett died in police custody in 1982. (Gallo)

NPA to re-examine Neil Aggett’s death

The Minister of Justice announced that an investigation will reopen over the death of Aggett’s death

Remembering: Yasmin Sooka, a commissioner at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was present when Hawa Timol spoke about her son. She and other commissioners want prosecutions for apartheid crimes. (Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP)

TRC commissioners demand justice

Former truth and reconciliation commissioners are entering a court battle to see a former policeman prosecuted

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

NPA admits to political interference in prosecutorial decisions

The NPA has denied that it played any role in delaying the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes, but concedes politicians interfered in its decisions

Imtiaz Cajee says an investigation needs to be held into why there has yet to be a prosecution of perpetrators in TRC-related cases. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa urged to establish judicial inquiry into lack of apartheid prosecutions

Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS

Former apartheid Security Branch policeman Joao Rodrigues. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)

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

Joao Rodrigues and Timol’s nephew Imtiaz Cajee (Getty Images)

Activist families fear precedent-setting case by apartheid cop

Families of slain activists are fighting against an apartheid-era cop’s attempt to avoid prosecution permanently

The developments in 79-year-old Rodrigues’ case offers hope to other families in a similar position to the Timols. (Anthony Schultz/M&G)

Daughter of apartheid cop accused of Timol’s murder speaks out

Tilana Stander says she has not spoken to her father for years but helped the Timol Foundation find him