A powerful legal precedent that promises to see the reopening of other apartheid era crimes has been set in motion thanks to anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol’s family. They pushed for a new inquiry ...

Former NDPP Jacobus Pretorius defends his record in high-profile TRC prosecutions against claims of interference.

The case against 79-year-old Joao Rodrigues was delayed on Monday as his defence team worried he could not climb the steps from the cells in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. “We've waited 47 years.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An anti-apartheid activist who died in 1971 was tortured and killed by South African police, a court said Thursday, a landmark decision that raised hopes that dozens of similar ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The family of a South African anti-apartheid activist who was tortured and killed by police in 1971 is pushing state prosecutors to act against three former police officers linked ...

Ahmed Timol died under suspicious circumstances in police custody in 1971. An inquest had said he committed suicide. But a Pretoria judge now says... In October 1971, South African anti-apartheid ...

Oct. 27, 1971: Political activist Ahmed Timol plunges to his death from the 10th floor of John Vorster Square (now the Johannesburg Central Police Station). The Security Police, who had detained him ...

JOHANNESBURG -- On a mild winter's morning in Johannesburg in June, 80-year-old Joao "Jan" Rodrigues sat in the city's High Court, waiting to learn of his legal fate over a mysterious apartheid-era ...

Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol died in police custody. Next week, a South African Court will consider reopening investigations into police misconduct from that era. South Africa is taking a new ...

In October 1971, South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol died under suspicious circumstances in police custody. An inquest the next year found that he committed suicide by jumping out of a ...