Minister of Justice Michael Masutha announced late on Friday 3 May that the National Prosecuting Authority would reopen an inquest into the death of Neil Aggett.
He was the 51st person to die in detention since the introduction of the 90-day detention law in 1963, and the fifth detainee to die at the hands of the Security Branch at John Vorster Square.Aggett had been one of a large group of activists arrested at the end of 1981, an event that lead to the establishment of the Detainees’ Parents’ Support Committee.
The Aggett family did not believe that Neil had committed suicide, but they allowed Bizos to proceed with his plan because it would allow for the evidence of other detainees to demonstrate the extent of the nefarious actions of the secretive Security Branch. While none of Aggett’s interrogators applied to the TRC for amnesty for their part in his torture or death, in 2012 thenewspaper tracked down Whitehead, at the time a wealthy cyber security expert who had provided several security-related services to various state organisations over the years.
A post on the website of an organisation based in Virginia in the United States, called Espionage Research Institute International , by its director, JD LeaSure, “reports today on the passing of our esteemed colleague, ERII Advisory Board Member Steve Whitehead of South Africa”.
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