The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will on Thursday, 06th June 2019 before Kubushi J in Court 2B hear an application by Thembi Nkadimeng for presuming that her sister, anti-apartheid activist, Nokuthula Simelane, is dead. Simelane, (23), was in 1983 abducted, tortured and murdered by the Security Branch. Her remains have never been discovered.
The application includes affidavits from Thembi, her mother, Sizakele Ernestina Simelane, and private investigator, Frank Dutton. Their affidavits motivates for the Court to issue this order. Dutton’s affidavit sets out the culpability of certain former Security Branch officers and the modus operandi of the Security Branch in dealing with failed ‘kopdraai’ operations.
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