ANC Youth League, GOOD hail Caiphus Nyoka murder verdict as long-delayed apartheid justice

By Lebone Rodah Mosima 

The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) and the GOOD party have hailed the conviction of two former apartheid police officers for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka.

The Pretoria High Court, sitting in Johannesburg, on Tuesday found former sergeants Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander guilty of the premeditated murder of Nyoka at his family home in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg.

The pair, members of a police reaction unit, will return to court on 11 December for a bail application ahead of sentencing. They were both remanded in custody.

Nyoka, a student activist, was a  member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and active in other youth structures on the East Rand.

He served