Kiera's Africa News

"South Africa Judge Rules Police Murdered Anti-Apartheid Activist in 1971."
The Guardian, Guardian News, 2017, www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/
south-africa-judge-rules-police-murdered-anti-apartheid-activist-in-1971.
Accessed 5 Nov. 2017.

Information is resurfacing about the cruel and unusual punishments and murders committed
by police force stationed at John Vorster police station in South Africa in the 1900's. 46 years ago,
Ahmed Timor, an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa, was allegedly said to have committed
suicide. Although, it is just being publicly announced that Ahmed Timor did not in fact end his own
life, but was murdered by police officers, judge Billy Mothle recently confirmed. Other anti-apartheid
activists that lived to know Timol testified against the police at John Voster as well, claiming that
they had been tortured and threatened with death multiple times as well. More and more families
that have lost relatives to this cause during a time relevant to the apartheid regime are beginning to
speak up and gain justice for their lost ones and what they had fought for. This connects to what we
have learned in class about Africa because many more cases and knowledge of Europe's white
rulers and Apartheid activists in South Africa brutally torturing and murdering Africans is starting to
be revealed more frequently in modern times.