Johan Marais, one of the four former police officers accused of the 1987 murder of anti-apartheid activist Caiphus Nyoka, pleaded guilty to the murder charge in a High Court in South Africa's capital Pretoria this week.

The court convicted Marais on the basis of his guilty plea and postponed the proceedings to 27 January 2025 for sentencing.

The murder trial of the three remaining co-accused-Leon Louis Van Den Berg, Abram Hercules Engelbrecht, and Pieter Stander is scheduled to begin next week at the Gauteng High Court.

The trial is expected to conclude by December 2024.

The Nyoka family, the Foundation for Human Rights, and Webber Wentzel have welcomed the guilty plea.  

To talk further on this Mosa Leteane, who is with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's programme called "Unfinished Business" within the Foundation for Human Rights joined Peter Ndoro.