‘The police version given in 1969 is unashamedly a pack of lies’
Say: Truth Has (Now) Arrived and Falsehood Has Vanished, for Falsehood is Bound to Perish. (Qur’an 17:81)
The above verse of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur’an, fittingly describes the testimony heard from Monday, November 7, to Wednesday, November 16, at the Western Cape High Court during the reopened inquest into the death of Imam Abdullah Haron in an apartheid prison cell in September 1969.
The expert testimonies of, in particular, aeronautical engineer Dr Thivash Moodley, and forensic pathologists Dr Itumeleng Molefe and Dr Segeran Naidoo, make it unequivocally clear that the apartheid police version that Imam Haron died as a result of injuries sustained during a “fall from a staircase at the Cape Town police…