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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

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

Chris Hani’s murderer, Janusz Walus. (Reuters)

Chris Hani’s killer denied parole, again

Justice minister says granting parole would negate the severity ascribed to the murder by the court when the assassin was sentenced

(John McCann/M&G)

Unfinished business: We need self-examination to heal from apartheid

Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars

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

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

Israel Mogoatlhe, an African Food and Canning Workers’ Union comrade of Neil Aggett. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Slice of life: ‘Those people, they have killed Neil’

Most of the workers said his face, it looked like Jesus

Former minister Barbara Hogan told the Johannesburg high court on Wednesday that security branch policeman Stephan Whitehead had an “unhealthy” interest in Aggett and his then partner, Elizabeth Floyd.
(Deon Raath/Beeld/Gallo)

Aggett tormentor had a ‘morbid’ obsession — Barbara Hogan

The former minister told the inquest into the trade unionist Neil Aggett’s death that security branch interrogator Stephan Whitehead was voyeuristic

Policing receives the most complaints regarding corruption

Police torture continues

Allegations of torture highlights the importance of the new national preventive mechanism and the need for independent custody monitoring

Neil Aggett, South African trade union leader and labour activist who died whilst in detention after being arrested by the South African Security Police. (Gallo Images / Sunday Times)

‘There were no marks on his neck’, Neil Aggett inquest hears

The trade unionist’s partner at the time he was detained at John Vorster Square says she now believes his death was not a suicide

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

Imam Abdul Haron. (Imam Abdul Haron Foundation)

Bid for slain Imam Haron’s family to see justice

Fifty years ago, the anti-apartheid activist was killed in police custody. His family fought to survive after his death, and now they want justice.

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

Bungling Hawks spook Haffejee witness

In early 2018 the witness reversed his decision to give evidence about his last hours alive after the Hawks were 2 weeks late to take his statement

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

Haffejee inquest: Security branch operative dies days after decision to reopen case

Colonel James Taylor will not be brought to book for his role in the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee because of delays in getting the case to court

(Graphic: Sound Africa)
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PODCAST: Examining Dr Death

How did a man who headed the apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare program Project Coast manage to stay in business in post-apartheid SA?

Judge Cynthia Pretorius handed down judgment on June 5 after the gruelling litigation led to numerous delays in the trial of Willem Coetzee

SAPS ordered to pay legal fees of security cops accused of murdering MK fighter

SAPS will pay legal costs for three apartheid era security policemen who stand accused of murdering Umkhonto weSizwe fighter Nokuthula Simelane

Third force: President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid to run for a third term in defiance of the country’s Constitution has provoked widespread anger and protests in Burundi and uncertainty in the region.
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PODCAST: Aunty Patty’s garden

When the coloured population of Simon’s Town was forcibly removed, Aunty Patty’s family remained

Persistent: Under the unrelenting questioning of Judge Billy Mothle

Timol probe unfolds like a whodunit

Who to believe: The apartheid cops or the doctors who say it wasn’t possible for the activist to jump?

Awie de Swardt, managing director of Futura SA Administrators

Timol inquest: NPA and Timol family challenge apartheid cop’s testimony

Rodrigues often testified that he "cannot remember" or "cannot comment" on certain questions because 46 years had passed since Timol’s death.

Rodrigues will continue his testimony on Tuesday where he is expected to comment on the evidence he gave during the original inquest.

Apartheid cops stick to their story on Timol death

Joao Rodrigues is the last known person to have seen Ahmed Timol alive