24 October 2017
Statement from the Ahmed Timol Family Trust
Forty-six years ago this week he was arrested and murdered by police
The Timol family today received correspondence (attached) from the National Prosecuting Authority confirming that police have received instructions to open three dockets pursuant to the cover-up of the 1971 murder in police custody of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol.
The charges follow Mr Justice Billy Mothle's finding earlier this month in the re-opened inquest that security police murdered Timol.
Judge Mothle overturned the 1972 ruling of apartheid magistrate JL De Villiers that Timol committed suicide, and recommended that three former security policemen who gave evidence to the re-opened inquest face charges for committing perjury - and in the case of former Sergeant Jan Rodrigues, as an accessory after the fact of murder.
http://www.ahmedtimol.co.za/npa-confirms-wheels-of-justice-for-ahmed-timol-are-turning