The family of anti-apartheid activist Imam Abdullah Haron has expressed confidence in the inquest into the circumstances of his death five decades ago, saying an investigation will bring closure to his children and grandchildren.
The inquiry hearings will be held between November 7 and 18 before judge Daniel Thulare, formerly the chief magistrate of Cape Town, at the high court in Cape Town.
Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola in June asked the Western Cape judge president to designate a judge to reopen the 1970 inquest, which found a “natural” cause of death and exonerated all involved. In Haron’s case, magistrate JSP Kuhn found that an alleged fall down a flight of fewer than a dozen stairs was the primary cause of the imam’s death — a lack of blood flow to his heart. The judgment found that Haron died of “myocardial ischemia ... due to, in part, trauma superimposed on a severe narrowing of a coronary artery”.
But pathologist Dr Percy Helman told the inquest that all of the 27 bruises could not have been caused by the alleged fall and that Haron would have suffered so much pain from his injuries he would have been unable to move. Helman also said the injuries caused blood to clot in the imam’s body. Magistrate Kuhn could not, and did not, account for all of Haron’s injuries, which apart from the 27 bruises, included a broken rib, internal bleeding at the base of his spine and an empty stomach . A few days before his death, the security police prevented her from seeing him.Events leading up to his death began on May 28 1969, when two large security policemen brought the imam home and ransacked the property. Galiema and his daughter Fatiema, then aged six, looked on aghast.
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