Over 18 gruelling days in court, harrowing accounts of excruciating torture and death at the hands of apartheid's notorious security forces were laid bare in the reopened Ahmed Timol inquest. Now, ...

The former security police officer testifying at the inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol on Tuesday came under fire as advocates Torie Pretorious and Howard Varney accused him of fabricating his ...

A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s 10th floor or off its roof, ...

The family of slain anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol remains cautiously optimistic about today's proceedings, after ex-security officer Joao Rodriguez handed himself over the police this morning, ...

Two significant testimonies were given at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today as day two of the second sitting into the reopening of the inquest into the death of apartheid activist Ahmed ...

Jan Rodrigues, the last man to see anti-apartheid activist Achmed Timol alive, insists he never saw any injuries on Timol before he allegedly leaped out of a 10th-floor window. Rodrigues testified in ...

Somewhere in the world, there is a beige shirt of Ahmed Timol’s with blotches of dried blood on it. Timol’s cousin, Farouk Dindar, had taken the shirt with him to Canada and, doubting that Timol’s ...

Anti-apartheid activists Ahmed Timol and Salim Essop were interrogated by the same Security Branch officers at the time of their detention in October 1971. Allegations of torture have been at the ...

The last man to see anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol alive 46 years ago, today insisted that Timol had opened and jumped out of a window without saying a word, reports The Citizen. Jan Rodrigues ...

Journalists on Thursday tried to draw out Imtiaz Cajee’s personal feelings shortly after the judgment on the Ahmed Timol inquiry was handed down. Timol’s family has been trying for decades to overturn ...

On 27 October 1971, the parents of South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol were informed that their son had committed suicide by throwing himself out of the window of room 1026 of John ...

The recent, reopened inquest into the death of teacher and anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol, was different in many ways from a traditional court case. Instead of the standard adversarial criminal ...