Court handed photo albums of Caiphus Nyoka’s murder as evidence
The apartheid police officers charged with Nyoka’s murder returned to the dock on Monday for trial.
Anti-apartheid activist Caiphus Nyoka was murdered in 1987 at his Daveyton home. Picture: Supplied by family
JOHANNESBURG - The Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni will now have the photo albums of student activist Caiphus Nyoka’s murder as evidence before it.
The apartheid police officers charged with Nyoka’s murder returned to the dock on Monday for trial.
Nyoka, who was a leader in the student group Congress of South African Students (COSAS), was murdered in his home in Daveyton in 1987.
Sixty-three-year-old Abram Engelbrecht, 62-year-old Pieter Stander, and 75-year-old Leon van den Berg have all been charged with murder.
Last year, a fourth accused, Johan Marais, pleaded guilty and is yet to be sentenced
Caiphus Nyoka was murdered at his home in Davetyon on 24 August 1987.
The State believes apartheid police officers found him sleeping with three of his friends when they moved them from the room and proceeded to shoot him nine times.
Nyoka’s case is one of those referred to the NPA by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
On Monday, evidence was handed over in the form of postmortem results, an affidavit by Nyoka’s father, Moses, the report from the first inquest into his murder and a photo album.
That album will be used as the State looks to prove that Abram Engelbrecht, Pieter Stander, Leon van den Berg, and Johan Marais intentionally killed Nyoka.