South African Communist Party
27 October 2018
SACP commemorates 47th anniversary of the murder of Comrade Ahmed Timol
Today, 27 October 2018, marks the 47th year since the brutal murder of Comrade Ahmed Timol by apartheid state security forces at the John Vorster Square Police Station, a week before his 30th birthday.
The lies that had been spread over the decades by former apartheid operatives that he committed suicide by jumping off the 10th floor window of John Vorster Square Police Station were exposed last year during the High Court inquest on Comrade Timol’s death. The truth was finally laid bare that Comrade Timol was brutally tortured by the police and then thrown out through the 10th floor window.
Also of significance is that the inquest judge declared illegal and set aside the racial profiling that had been placed on Comrade Timol and, instead of “Indian male”, substituted it with “South African”. The intention of such racial profiling by the apartheid regime was to view White people as real South Africans and other races as non-South Africans.