Norman Afzal Simons was charged with 21 counts of murder after the bodies of 22 boys were found in shallow graves in Mitchells Plain between 1986 and 1994.
CAPE TOWN - As the world honours the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, the South African Human Rights Commission's Chris Nissen said he'll never forget how the former president comforted families of victims of the so-called "station strangler" in Cape Town.
Simons was accused of being a serial killer when bodies of 22 boys were found in shallow graves in Cape Town between 1986 and 1994.Read: Nelson Mandela Day: Ramaphosa calls on South Africans to promote world peace He recalled the time he took the late former statesman Nelson Mandela to the house of 14-year-old Neville Samaai in Rocklands in Mitchells Plain.Read: SAHRC's Nissen calls for Station Strangler cases to be reopened
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