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SACP to Continue Supporting Timol Family in Prosecution of Late Stalwarts Murderers

October 28, 2018

 

Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 28-10-2018

 

The South African Communist Party (SACP) says it will continue to stand in solidarity with late Ahmed Timol’s family in the prosecution of those involved in the murder of the late struggle stalwart.

Yesterday marked the 47th anniversary of the death of Timol by apartheid state security forces at the John Vorster square police station in 1971, a week before his 30th birthday.

In October last year the high court in Pretoria ruled that Timol did not commit suicide but was rather murdered, overturning a 40-year-old inquest finding that endorsed the police’s version that Timol jumped to his death.

The Sacp’s Alex Mashilo says the truth and reconciliation commission could not expose the whole truth on the circumstances leading to the struggle stalwart’s death.

Mashilo says the Sacp will be filing papers opposing the motion by one of the apartheid police officers, Joao Rodrigues, for a permanent stay of the murder prosecution for his involvement in the death of Timol.

“It’s very important that justice must be seen to be done. We need answers. They must be held accountable to the full extent of the law. In fact this has to happen as a national programme to ensure justice for all those who were murdered in the hands of apartheid police.”

 

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