SAfrican activist jumped to death, ex-guard tells apartheid

A South African policeman present when an anti-apartheid operative plunged to his death more than 40 years ago insisted today that the victim had jumped to his death.

But the judge hearing the inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol warned him that he could face prosecution based on the court's findings and his evidence.

Joao Rodrigues served in the security branch of the apartheid regime and was guarding Timol when he plunged to his death from a Johannesburg police station window in 1971.

Rodrigues only gave evidence to the court after his own daughter revealed his whereabouts to the family of Timol.

She gave him up after hearing about their campaign for a fresh probe into his death, Timol's family told

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