Postmortem reports, inquest records submitted against apartheid cops accused of killing Caiphus Nyoka
A Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni is hearing the trial into the 1987 murder of COSAS leader, Caiphus Nyoka.
Anti-apartheid activist Caiphus Nyoka was murdered in 1987 at his Daveyton home. Picture: Supplied by family
JOHANNESBURG - Postmortem reports and inquest records have been submitted in the case against apartheid police officers accused of the murder of COSAS leader, Caiphus Nyoka.
A Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni is hearing the trial into the 1987 murder of COSAS leader, Caiphus Nyoka.
Sixty-three-year-old Abram Engelbrecht, 62-year-old Pieter Stander, and 75-year-old Leon van den Berg, who were members of a unit of the apartheid police, are accused of shooting the student activist multiple times in his Daveyton home.
In 2024, a fourth accused, Johan Marais, pleaded guilty.
He is yet to be sentenced.
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There were two postmortems conducted after the murder of Nyoka, one by the State and another by a pathologist approached by the family.
Both have now been admitted as evidence against Engelbrecht, Marais and van den Berg.
An affidavit by Nyoka’s father has also been admitted, and records from the inquest into Nyoka’s death.
This means there will no longer be a trial-within-a-trial to determine their admissibility.
The admission of these documents does not mean, however, that the defence disputes or admits the contents of these records.
It means their truthfulness can be challenged during the trial.