Watch Ahmed Timol Inquest adjourned to Monday

Friday 28 July 2017 11:59

Neo Makwiting

(SABC)

The Ahmed Timol inquest in the High Court in Pretoria has been adjourned to Monday.

Timol was an anti-apartheid activist who died in prison 46 years ago. An aeronautical engineer Thivash Moodley was giving evidence.

The inquest has entered its fifth day.

Earlier, newly-elected SA Communist Party (SACP) deputy general-secretary, Solly Mapaila, called on government to re-open the more than 500 cases that were left unresolved during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process 10 years ago.

He was speaking outside the Ahmed Timol inquest hearing at the high court in Pretoria.

Mapaila says the African National Congress (ANC) government should have led and financially supported the steps that the activist's family have taken to re-open the inquest. Mapaila says it is not proper that former apartheid security personnel fingered for atrocities are financially enjoying legal support, when families of their victims are not.

"It's incumbent that we call on government to create the possibility for all those families to come forward to be assisted because as it is now the security services for instance when they come into these cases they would have legal services provided for by the state; But the families who seek the truth are not provided such. As a results they have to find their legal mechanisms to meet their legal bills. Therefore it will be important that state provide that capacity."

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