The 26-year-old anti-apartheid activist was found hanging in his cell at Durban’s Brighton Beach Police Station on 3 August 1977. Less than 24 hours before that, he had been arrested under the Terrorism Act and on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the state.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Forty-five years after the murder of liberation hero Rick Turner, fresh evidence has given his family new hope that the truth about who killed him in January 1978 will finally be uncovered