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The Continent article SOUTH AFRICA Apartheid-era cops deny killing activist Three former apartheid-era police officers have denied participating in the 1987 murder of South African student activist Caiphus Nyoka. Appearing in a Johannesburg court on Tuesday, Pieter Stander, Leon van den Berg and Abram Engelbrecht pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder. Another former officer, Johan Marais, pleaded guilty and was convicted last week. Nyoka, 23, was a member of the Congress of South African Students. He was shot dead on 24 August 1987 in his parents’house in Daveyton. In his guilty plea last week, Marais directly implicated the other Security Branch officers, saying he was instructed “to take the deceased out”, News24 reported.

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The Continent article SOUTH AFRICA Apartheid-era cops deny killing activist Three former apartheid-era police officers have denied participating in the 1987 murder of South African student activist Caiphus Nyoka. Appearing in a Johannesburg court on Tuesday, Pieter Stander, Leon van den Berg and Abram Engelbrecht pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder. Another former officer, Johan Marais, pleaded guilty and was convicted last week. Nyoka, 23, was a member of the Congress of South African Students. He was shot dead on 24 August 1987 in his parents’house in Daveyton. In his guilty plea last week, Marais directly implicated the other Security Branch officers, saying he was instructed “to take the deceased out”, News24 reported.
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Justice delayed but not denied.
Four apartheid era South African police officers have been put on trial for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. One of them, 65 year old Johan Marais, has already pled guilty, and testified that the three others were complicit as well.
37 years later, someone may yet see the inside of a jail for this crime.
From this weekend's edition of the @thecontinent the pan African digital newspaper.

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