07 March 2024
Lawyers urge that all organs of state should work together in collaborative manner with unified focus
09 October 2023
GOOD SG says people deserve to know why their govt has deliberately delayed justice in respect of apartheid-era killings
17 July 2022
President says ANC DSG was gracious, compassionate and always kind
07 March 2022
Judge overturns consensus of first inquest, states detainee was killed by members of Security Branch, not driven to kill himself
21 January 2022
Investigator was working for Investigating Directorate after his time at Zondo commission
09 December 2021
Party reaffirms its strong opposition to parole for Walus, the man who pulled the trigger in the assassination of Chris Hani
22 November 2021
Paul Trewhela writes on Musa Xulu, the RET faction, Thami Zulu and electoral reform
11 November 2021
Victims and their families are entitled to the truth about the past
11 November 2021
Former minister pays tribute to the revolutionary commitment of his close friend and comrade
11 November 2021
Brother says it is our responsibility to “defend the gains of our democracy” and take a stand against corruption
09 September 2021
Jeremy Gordin writes on the death of Timol-accused Jan Rodrigues
07 July 2021
Brett Herron dismisses Foundation's argument that unamnestied ANC murderers should be pursued by NPA as well
05 July 2021
FW de Klerk Foundation says prosecutions would need to be even-handed, to be constitutional
27 June 2021
SCA judgment in Timol case important step towards honouring those who gave their lives for our constitutional democracy
24 June 2021
Jeremy Gordin writes on the SCA's decision to turn down Jan Rodrigues' stay application
21 June 2021
Court dismisses appeal by Ahmed Timol's alleged killer in stay of prosecution case
08 April 2021
Decision from SCA in Bloemfontein on defence's appeal is still pending
08 January 2021
Party's Integrity Commission to be strengthened to enable it to deal with corruption, says NEC
11 November 2020
RW Johnson writes on the disenchantment of the struggle generation
23 September 2020
James Myburgh explains the purpose behind the 1973 UN Convention declaring apartheid a ‘crime against humanity’
03 August 2020
Blade Nzimande says it was a grievous mistake for SA to accept a loan from the Fund
03 June 2020
Jeremy Gordin reviews "The Murder of Ahmed Timol: My Search for Truth"
23 February 2020
Johan Botha says no member of ANC NEC has been prosecuted for crimes committed under that organ's command
11 February 2020
Official Almanack of the People's Republic of Racial Lunacy
05 February 2020
Jenny Schneider says people have yet to overcome legacy of apartheid colonialism
20 January 2020
Union says trade unionist played an important role in organising its members
19 January 2020
Other organisations and stalwarts of the liberation movement called upon to similarly express support
18 December 2019
Federation says Kanya Cekeshe crime was to challenge govt to implement free decolonised education
11 December 2019
Nephew questions huge costs given that the criminal trial has yet to even start
16 October 2019
Main points relate to alleged amnesty for political offences, improper conduct of deponents
19 September 2019
Ismail Vadi says the SACP leader was a complex and mature revolutionary
18 August 2019
Both detainees found to have committed suicide by hanging at original inquests
04 August 2019
Date yet to be set for former police clerk's' defence to argue its leave to appeal application
08 July 2019
Imtiaz Cajee posted on Twitter that he had joined DOJ and police in application
24 June 2019
Court, with respect, misdirected itself in several respects, says Ben Minnaar
23 June 2019
Signatories disappointed at President Ramaphosa's failure to mention apartheid-era atrocities in SONA
03 June 2019
This after court dismissed former police clerk's application for a permanent stay of prosecution
03 June 2019
Jeremy Gordin writes on Jan Rodrigues' failure to secure a stay of prosecution in the High Court
03 June 2019
Kollapen J says 47 year long delay does not infringe former police clerk's constitutional right to fair trial
29 May 2019
James Myburgh & Jeremy Gordin on the deeply flawed basis of the NPA's murder case against the former police clerk
28 April 2019
At first inquest magistrate excluded critical evidence depicting pattern of sensory deprivation and torture
28 March 2019
Jaap Cilliers SC says objective fact is applicant was charged 47 years after Ahmed Timol's death
28 March 2019
Jeremy Gordin writes on the State and Human Rights Establishment vs Jan Rodrigues
25 March 2019
Jeremy Gordin asks why the Law Society is trying to intervene as an amicus in this case
06 March 2019
Jeremy Gordin on the latest frenetic attempts by the Human Rights crowd to see Joao Rodrigues, 79, prosecuted
07 February 2019
President Ramaphosa also called upon to victims who were denied justice
29 January 2019
Jeremy Gordin writes on the broader context of the State versus Joao “Jan” Rodrigues
28 January 2019
Ahmed Timol's nephew says accused's version is highly improbable
19 December 2018
'It is not the fault of the victim's family that the NPA failed to prosecute'
19 December 2018
Judge Ramarumo Monama rejects application of Haffejee family to intervene in Rodrigues case
06 November 2018
Jeremy Gordin asks whether the NPA has sufficient evidence to bring a prosecution, let alone secure a conviction
29 October 2018
Party says it continues to stand with the Timol family in the prosecution of the murderers of their son
22 October 2018
Application for a permanent stay of prosecution would be heard in chambers for now
15 October 2018
Judge Ramarumo Monama says applications must be submitted by Friday
18 September 2018
Once Adv Jaap Cilliers SC files application, State will respond in writing, and date will be set for arguments
17 September 2018
Family would support a non-custodial sentence for former police clerk if he comes clean, says Imtiaz Cajee
30 July 2018
'It is about remembering our fallen heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price for us', says Imtiaz Cajee
30 July 2018
Yasmin Sooka says this is just the second of 300 apartheid-era post-TRC cases to be brought to court
30 July 2018
Imtiaz Cajee says his family is grateful to the Almighty for the progress made on uncle's matter
07 May 2018
Group believes citizens can help expose truth of 8 other apartheid-era deaths
18 January 2018
We seek not vengeance, but the truth and closure, says Imtiaz Cajee
01 January 2018
Pravin Gordhan sacked, Ahmed Kathrada dies, and NDZ fails to become ANC President
07 December 2017
James Myburgh on the most probable explanation for what really happened
08 November 2017
Former ANC DP says that given the historical exigencies of our state, inequality shapes power, privilege and agency
07 November 2017
James Myburgh writes on the debate around the autopsy results at the first inquest
26 October 2017
James Myburgh writes on one of the most perplexing aspects of the Ahmed Timol case
25 October 2017
Party will continue to support the family in the struggle to have justice run its full course
24 October 2017
Authority says there was dolus eventualis and police-clerk placed him at scene of the crime
23 October 2017
Gabriel Crouse & James Myburgh write on the 1971/2 court battle to save the young associate of Ahmed Timol
17 October 2017
James Myburgh sets out the historical background and lead-up to the detention of the SACP underground operative
12 October 2017
Inquest judgment finds that SACP underground operative was pushed out building, Jan Roderigues an accessory after the fact
12 October 2017
Party says it has always believed the underground operative was murdered and hopes the guilty will now face the music
12 September 2017
Mervyn Bennun says the view has taken hold that the party serves the president, not the people
27 August 2017
Simply designed to restore suspended banking services, evade tax, and expatriate yet more ill-gotten wealth
14 August 2017
Nephew tells the court he often accompanied his grandfather to Timol's grave
13 August 2017
John Kane-Berman says evil needs to be nipped in the bud when it first occurs
10 August 2017
Forensic pathologist says that medical evidence was not able to make a distinction between time of day
05 August 2017
This after witness testifies that he remembers it having happened in morning 46 years ago
03 August 2017
Confirms there was no instruction to Party members to commit suicide
03 August 2017
This after police clerk's eyewitness account contradicts version of Ahmed Timol's last moments that family has presented to inquest
02 August 2017
Advocate stops short of calling Rodrigues a liar after he presented various versions of what had happened
02 August 2017
'I did not cry because within that room I expected someone to be a spy'
01 August 2017
Former police admin clerk says he rejected security police pressure to insert untruths into his original statement
01 August 2017
Eyewitness' account contradicts the new claims of origins of injuries made by forensic pathologists hired by family
28 July 2017
Aeronautical engineer tells inquest that if SACP operative's body found too close to building
27 July 2017
Letter of commendation Sgt Joao Rodriguez received in 1972 was suspicious, court hears
26 July 2017
Forensic pathologist says SACP operative had depression to skull, which could've been caused by blunt object
25 July 2017
Former SACP comrade says Islam prohibited suicide, and it was never the policy of the Party
13 July 2017
Family want closure and answers to what really happened to their son and brother
02 July 2017
Party says this is used to justify capitalist looting of our national wealth and public resources by parasites
30 June 2017
Former detainee says she was being tortured at the same time
30 June 2017
Brother says Ahmed had returned to UK from secret studies in USSR in 1969 and then went to SA on 20 February 1970
30 June 2017
William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the reopening of inquest into Ahmed Timol's death, and Hillsborough
29 June 2017
Human Rights lawyer says the security police were a law unto themselves with even senior prosecutors doing their bidding
29 June 2017
Of about 23 individuals that were allegedly involved in the matter, only three still alive
28 June 2017
Relevant extracts from 1971, 1972 & 1973 SAIRR Race Relations Surveys, including on Salim Essop's detention and trial
28 June 2017
Struggle icon Salim Essop re-enacted a scene from his testimony where he recalled seeing two policemen holding a man he believed was Timol
27 June 2017
Two were driving from Coronationville to Fordsburg when they were stopped by two policemen
27 June 2017
Mohammed Timol says surviving Security Branch officers now had a chance to tell truth about SACP operative's death
27 June 2017
Text of SACP pamphlet/propaganda leaflets operative was transporting at time of arrest, 22 October 1971