WATCH: Two former apartheid-era officers found guilty of Caiphus Nyoka’s murder
The judgment was handed down today (December 2) by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Two of the three former apartheid-era police officers, Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander, have been found guilty of killing Daveyton student activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987.
The judgment was handed down today (December 2) by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Leon van den Berg, who was a major-general, was found not guilty.
Nyoka, a Congress of South African Students (Cosas) leader and Transco East Rand co-ordinator, was allegedly targeted by a police unit formed to combat so-called “terrorism” during apartheid.
He was killed during what police at the time described as an operation to apprehend him.
Their co-accused, Johan Marais (65) from Springs, pleaded guilty and was found guilty of murder last year in the Pretoria High Court. Marais’ attorney read a statement detailing that, on that day, Marais unlawfully and intentionally killed Nyoka by shooting him with a firearm.
@benonicitytimes Two of the three former apartheid-era police officers, JUST IN: Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander, have been found guilty of killing Daveyton student activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987.
@benonicitytimes The sister of Caiphus Nyoka reacts to the Gauteng High Courts judgement which found two of his brothers killers guilty.
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