Former Vlakplaas cop in court for triple murder 40 years ago

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Thlomedi Ephraim Mfalapitsa, 67, a former Vlakplaas policeman, appeared in the high court in Johannesburg on Friday in connection with the deaths of three student activists in Krugersdorp nearly 40 years ago.

The case of Mfalapitsa, who was a SA Police Security Branch officer, was postponed until Monday as the judge presiding over the matter was off due to ill-health.

In its indictment, the state said Mfalapitsi was an askari, a term used to describe former members of the liberation movements, particularly the ANC, who joined the Security Branch and were working against their former comrades. Musi explored the possibility of leaving the country with the accused, whom he erroneously still regarded as a member of MK, unaware that the accused had become an askari.The accused was allegedly ordered by Jan Carel Coetzee, a commander at Vlakplaas, to lure Musi and the deceased to an explosive-infested pump house at a mine near Krugersdorp, under the guise of giving them military training.

The state alleges that the order to kill the students emanated from senior officers within the security branch and was conveyed to Coetzee by his superior, Willem Frederick Schoon.

 

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What is this?

No one sings he is an old man

I don't feel anything for him. He must face the music, whether he's an easy target or not. But his White masters must face the music as well.

Baphi abanye abamhloshana.

Interesting how the real dons of apartheid defend it every chance and even have a Nobel peace prize to boot

'I know they are gonna start mention my family now, Papa De Klerk is going nowhere, ask the entire MYANC leadership'

But what are we achieving as the country about the prosecution of elderly people, instead of focusing on criminals and rapists. People are murdered daily but murderers are still loose on streets.

So he is the face of an assassin organization not even spelled after his mother tongue?

Nwabe2 Looks like prosecution is reserved for black SA

Nwabe2 ☝️this must be the work of that Evil sellout Ramaphosa

Nwabe2 Where's white colleague

Where's Julius_S_Malema now, do black lives only matter to him when it's anyone else killing blacks

This picture is misleading !!!

sydwelmakhubele Then Definitely De klerk and Dr death(cadilogist) must be brought to book now! Not next week, is there a case opened against them? If not then it should be opened by next week!

Why prosecute these small guys who were following order from top apartheid leaders, why De Klerk is free🤷🏽‍♂️

Yabona ke abo Ephraim 😑

All the apartheid crimes must be reviewed

And they will boring us telling gore the system is working!! De clerk must account himself

The law was designed to deal with blacks, when are these devils being prosecuted by NPA_Prosecutes ?

Truth and reconciliation commission was only for blacks to forgive whites, in fact it was for Mandela to forgive whites on our behalf

Yet De Klerk is a free man with Noble price peace🚮🚮🚮

Yet all those politicians who upheld and orchestrated apartheid are still free and not jailed.

I thought Apartheid related conduct including killings were forgiven in Mzansi, or it was only those by specific individuals had to be forgiven?

How I wish all SADF and SAP, as well as all apartheid officials got to account for their evil deeds.

The long arm of the law

And De Klerk is still roaming free nxn

We want the big fish De klerk not this sardine.

Then what is the reason De Klerk can't be charged?

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