‘In 1978, a young doctor at Soweto’s Baragwanath hospital began using his spare time to help the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union set up a Johannesburg branch. On the morning of 5 February, ...

Political interference in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) meant that many cases involving the deaths of anti-apartheid activists didn’t “see the light of day” for many years.

Johannesburg - Former minister of intelligence and anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils has detailed how apartheid security operatives tempered with the documents that were distributed by the ...

Cape Town - A support group is to lay a criminal complaint against one of Neil Aggett’s interrogators this week in pursuit of a private prosecution. Trade unionist and doctor Aggett died in detention ...

A security branch officer who interrogated Dr Neil Aggett while he was detained for treason admitted on Tuesday he found nothing to substantiate claims of him being a troublemaker. Testifying in the ...

The case against Neil Aggett’s interrogator could set an important precedent for restorative justice. Darkness falls early on a cold afternoon in London, as Jill Burger remembers how detention and ...

Last month was the 32nd anniversary of the death of celebrated South African struggle-hero Neil Aggett, who hanged himself in police custody after sixty-two hours of non-stop interrogation and torture ...

On the morning of 27th November 1981 Neil Aggett was arrested in Johannesburg and taken to John Vorster Square. Seventy days later, 5th February 1982, he was dead. He was 28 years old. In the wake of ...

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RONNIE KASRILS pays tribute to Ruth First, a fearless fighter against South African apartheid, in the centenary month of her birth Owned by Our Readers We're a reader-owned co-operative, which means ...