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Former Security Branch officer cannot say how Matthews ‘Mojo’ Mabelane died

A former apartheid-era Security Branch officer has distanced herself from a key element of the official account of the death of anti-apartheid activist, Matthews "Mojo" Mabelane. Leanna Viljoen told the reopened inquest into Mabelane’s death that she could not say whether the 22-year-old jumped, was pushed or was thrown from the 10th floor of John Vorster Square in February 1977. Viljoen was working in an administrative office on the 10th […]

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Witness testimony and forensic evidence challenge official account of Mabelane’s death

Nearly five decades after anti-apartheid activist, Matthews "Mojo" Mabelane, died in police detention, witness testimony and forensic evidence presented at the reopened inquest are increasingly casting doubt on the apartheid-era account that he jumped to his death from the tenth floor of John Vorster Square. On the third day of proceedings in the Johannesburg High Court, the court heard evidence that sharply contradicts the findings of the original 1977 inquest, […]

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