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It’s not about revenge, its justice – Imam Abdullah Haron’s family confident as historic death inquest commences

VOC The family of martyred Imam Abdullah Haron are anxious as the first day of the historic inquest into his death finally got under way in the Cape High Court on Monday. The highly anticipated inquest follows decades of efforts by justice-seeking family and friends of the martyr, who spent 123 days in apartheid custody before his demise in September 1969. The imam of the Claremont Road masjid was 45 […]

today7 November 2022

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Imam Haron death inquest to be heard in Nov, 53 years after demise

LOCAL Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald O. Lamola has ordered that the inquest into the detention and death of Apartheid activist, Imam Abdullah Haron be reopened. The inquest is scheduled to take place in open court from the 7th to the 18th of November 2022. This decision comes 53 years after the killing of Imam Haron whilst held in solitary confinement under the Apartheid terrorism act for 123 […]

today5 September 2022

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Mabelane family hopes Ahmed Timol death inquest will open doors

"Brother Lesh, inform mum and my other brothers that the police are going to push me from the 10th floor and I am bidding you goodbye, forever." These were the words written on the white lining of Matthews Mabelane’s dark green and bloodied Lee branded trousers. Fearing for his life, he had written the message for his family while he was in detention at John Vorster Square in 1977. Like […]

today13 July 2017

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