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Among the things that happened on this day in history, soviet strongman Josef Stalin, the man of steel, is born while the most audacious general of World War II dies following a car crash.
The family of the late anti-apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett say they have always firmly believed that he was severely tortured and killed by security police belonging to the apartheid regime and never committed suicide.
The finding that anti-apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett was killed by members of apartheid regime’s security police has once again revived calls for justice for all murdered Struggle martyrs.
This comes after Judge Motsamai Makume ruled in court that the 1982 death of trade unionist Dr Neil Aggett was not suicide.
Human Rights and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundations support a called for President Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint a commission of inquiry into the suppression of cases of gross human rights violations during the apartheid era.
He was found dead in his cell at the then John Vorster Square (now Johannesburg Central police station) on February 5 1982.
He joined black people in the Struggle against oppression from his fellow white people
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