Ex-police officers convicted of apartheid-era South Africa murder

Two former police officers in South Africa have been found guilty of the 1987 murder of an activist during the apartheid era, according to the Associated Press on December 2nd.

Student activist and leader, Caiphus Nyoka, was shot dead at his family home near Johannesburg by two officers from the apartheid-era police force. Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander were convicted by a judge at Johannesburg’s Gauteng High Court.

Apartheid was the state-sanctioned discrimination of non-white South Africans under white-minority rule; the system officially ended in 1994, but concerns over the perceived failure to hold authorities accountable for apartheid-era crimes remain.

Associated Press, Maghrebi