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AN INQUEST into the alleged apartheid police murder of South African communist Ahmed Timol reopened in Johannesburg yesterday after 45 years.
The 1972 inquest accepted the police version of events that Mr Timol killed himself by jumping out of the narrow 10th-floor window of the John Vorster Square security services building on October 27 1971 during an interrogation.
More than 70 political prisoners died at the John Vorster Square, with police claiming the deaths were accidents or suicides.
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
SALEEM BADAT and VASU REDDY introduce a new book about an outstanding interpreter of the world, and an activist scholar committed to changing society
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS