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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 at the State of the Nation address on February 13. (David Harrison/M&G)

De Klerk now admits apartheid was a crime against humanity

Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot

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

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

Bantu Holomisa has called for the suspension of all unlisted investments at the PIC. (David Harrison/M&G)

​Civic education might be the future

In a democracy, this means learning about self-governance

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

A plaque at JHB Central Police Station commemorating all the people who died in detention during apartheid. Included in the list of names is Ahmed Timol and Bantu Stephen Biko.

Timol inquest highlights striking similarities to present day South Africa

The experiences of activists who were tortured during apartheid and those tortured after 1994 are chillingly similar.

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?

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Timol inquest: Reliving the horror

Salim Essop recalls how he was tortured by the police in 1971. His friend Ahmed Timol died in their custody

US court considers appeal against apartheid lawsuit

A US court on Monday heard an appeal by major corporations attempting to stop a lawsuit over their role in South Africa’s apartheid-era regime.

State backs apartheid victims’ case

Apartheid victims suing international companies for “aiding and abetting” will consider turning down an out-of-court settlement.