LIVE: High Court ruling on Ahmed Timol inquest

LIVE: High Court ruling on Ahmed Timol inquest

The High Court in Pretoria will deliver its ruling on the 1971 death of apartheid-era activist Ahmed Timol. 

Ahmed Timol's nephew
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The court will decide whether his death in custody was suicide, as police officers claimed, or actually a regime killing.


For many, the case - the culmination of a relentless campaign by the activist's family - has brought back raw memories of apartheid.


Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old campaigner against white-minority rule, was arrested in Johannesburg and after five days in detention he died after plummeting from the city's police headquarters.


Officers at the time said he took his own life -- a verdict endorsed by an inquest.


But his family fought the ruling and have campaigned hard to secure the review that finally began in June.


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