Family members of late activist Imam Abdullah Haron are seen at the Cape Town High Court during proceedings of his re-opened inquest on 07 November 2022.Family members of late activist Imam Abdullah Haron are seen at the Cape Town High Court during proceedings of his re-opened inquest on 07 November 2022.Imam Abdullah Haron
The original inquest found that no one could be held responsible for Haron’s death, a finding that was never accepted by his family or community, who believe he was tortured and killed by the security police. “We saw that the actual distance traversed from falling to where he stopped was barely a meter in terms of how much he slid to receive so many injuries to the insides of his legs the left and right side of his thighs it’s hard to figure out that one fall, one action receiving so many injuries on his body,” says Moodley.
Specialist forensic pathologist Dr Itumeleng Molefe also called into question the original inquest finding that the cause of death, in part, was attributed to a condition that occurs when blood flow to the heart is reduced. “I heard he’s a difficult man. What is a difficult person in your opinion? When you ask a question, and I don’t give you the right answer – is that beeing difficult? Would that include abuse? I can’t say that but those bruises there, it’s from being kicked, trampled on,” claims Burger.Former political detainee, Yousuf Gabru, “The reality your lordship is that Spyker van Wyk was an uncivilized barbarian. and he took great pride in his cruelty.