Four men are accused of murdering Daveyton anti-apartheid student activist Caiphus Nyoka 37 years ago.
One of four former apartheid-era police officers currently facing murder charges in a high court sitting in Benoni was released on R350 000 bail and can travel back to Iraq, where he works as a private military contractor.
Nyoka, who was a prominent leader of the Congress of South African Students in Daveyton and the co-ordinator for Transco East Rand, was fatally shot on August 24, 1987, by members of a police unit allegedly established to 'deal with terrorism'.Marais, Van den Berg and Engelbrecht were indicted in the Gauteng Division of the High Court on August 30, 2022, and after some delays the court set the trial date for April 22 to May 3.
On April 26, he filed an application to amend the conditions of his release on warning, pending the finalisation of the trial, and to postpone the start of the trial.During court proceedings yesterday, judge Gerhardus Botha ordered that Stander’s passport be returned to him in order for him to travel to Iraq, but only in pursuance of his employment.“Travel to any other country than Iraq for any reason other than work will be considered a breach of bail conditions.
The case re-emerged more than two decades later, in 2019, when Marais confessed to a journalist that the police murdered Nyoka.
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