The doctor and unionist died suspiciously in detention in 1982. Courtesy #DStv403re-opened an inquest into the death of the first white anti-apartheid activist to die in police custody,Then aged 28, doctor and trade unionist, Neil Aggett was detained by the apartheid police security branch in 1981.
However, a few hours before he died, Aggett had made an affidavit stating he had been assaulted and given electric shocks. "It is the Aggett family's firm belief that Neil was killed at the hands of the security branch officers, either directly or through unrelenting systematic torture, abuse and neglect which pushed him to take his own life," lawyer Howard Varney told the High Court in Johannesburg.
The landmark probe is only the second inquest ever into the mysterious deaths of dozens of activists who died in police detention at the infamous John Vorster police headquarters in Johannesburg during apartheid.
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