Another apartheid-era death will be investigated after the National Prosecuting Authority was pressured to finally act on the matter
A fresh inquest will finally be held into the 1977 death in detention of anti-apartheid activist Dr Hoosen Haffejee following years of lobbying authorities and threats of court action by his family.
Jessop said the exact venue for the inquest would be finalised in the coming days as the Durban high court, under whose jurisdiction the place of his death falls, may not have the capacity to handle the large number of people drawn by the high profile hearing, which may be moved to Pietermaritzburg. Last August, national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi wrote to the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal judge presidents asking them to appoint judges to hear inquests into the deaths in detention of Haffejee and Dr Neil Aggett.
Jessop said the Haffejee family were “extremely relieved” that the matter would now finally go ahead.
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