Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
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His appearance on behalf of the families of mine workers shot by the police at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was just one of his efforts to seek justice for the poor and marginalised.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
In South Africa’s criminal justice system post-1994, the Timol case is the first to enact what can be properly understood as restorative justice.
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
