It was an emotional moment for the three Haron siblings as judge Daniel Thulare ruled that at least six apartheid-era police officers were responsible for their father’s torture and ultimate death.
The reopened inquest, which continues in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, is to get to the truth on circumstances around the late Islamic scholar’s death in detention in 1969, initially stated to be an accidental fall down a flight of stairs.
Since an apartheid court ruled his death was of natural causes, the death of one of South Africa s seminal anti-apartheid activists Imam Abdullah Haron will finally be heard in a democratic court.