Apartheid Police Members In Court For 1987 Student Activist Murder

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation DPCI recently announced significant developments in the decades-old case involving the murder of East Rand student activist Caiphus Nyoka.

Nyoka, a 23-year-old member of the Congress of South African Students, was fatally shot in the early hours of August 24, 1987, at his home in Daveyton, Gauteng.

His case, previously ruled as justified during an inquest, resurfaced in 2019 when new evidence allegedly implicating state operatives came to light.

Following this revelation, the DPCI launched an investigation, which led to the arrest of four former police officers: Johan Marais, Louis van den Berg, Abraham Engelbrecht, and Pieter Egbert Stander.

The four were members of the Benoni Security Branch and Unit 6 Dunnottar Reaction Unit at the time of Nyoka's death, reports News24 .