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Trial of Caiphus Nyoka murder co-accused set to begin

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The murder trial of the three remaining co-accused in the 1987 murder of anti-apartheid activist Caiphus Nyoka, is expected to start TOMORROW (18 November 2024) at the Gauteng  High Court, sitting in the Benoni Magistrates' Court. Johan Marais, one of the four accused former apartheid police officers was convicted of Nyoka's murder in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday, and will be sentenced in January next year. The other three co-aacussed - Leon Louis Van Den Berg, Abram Hercules Engelbrecht, and Pieter Stander - will have their day in court beginning tomorrow. Caiphus Nyoka, a leader of the Congress of South African Students - COSAS - was shot and killed at his family home in Daveyton, Gauteng on 24th August 1987 by an apartheid police unit established to 'deal with terrorism'. To talk to us about the trial we are joined on the line by Mosangoaneng Leteane, Senior Projects Officer at the Foundation For Human Rights.....

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