Caiphus Nyoka murder: High Court finds 2 apartheid police officers guilty

The Johannesburg High Court has found two of the three apartheid police officers charged with the murder of student leader Caiphus Nyoka guilty of the crime

Apartheid Major Leon van den Berg and sergants Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander have been standing trial for the 1987 murder.

But the court has acquitted van den Berg, finding that the State failed to prove its case against him beyond reasonable doubt.

Nyoka, who was a student leader, was murdered in his Daveyton home in 1987.

Judge Mohammed Ismael handed down the judgment on Tuesday.