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Bongiwe Gumede
A former apartheid Security Branch officer who interrogated activist Dr Neil Aggett has testified it was hard to grasp news of Aggett s death and there was no evidence that Aggett and others were involved in what the then-government had labelled as the biggest treason trial in the country s history.
Johan Naude was the first witness in the resumption of the inquest into the 1982 death of Aggett while in police custody at the notorious John Vorster Square police station, now known as Johannesburg Central.
The inquest resumed via a virtual hearing before Judge Motsamai Makume on Monday. There’s more to this story