The reopened inquest into the death of human rights lawyer and African National Congress (ANC) activist Griffiths Mxenge is back in the Pietermaritzburg High Court today.

Judge Pieter Bezuidenhout is expected to receive an update on what progress has been made by implicated former police officers to get legal representation from the state.

Mxenge was kidnapped in Umlazi, south of Durban, and brutally murdered in 1981.

His body was then dumped next to a soccer field.

The first inquest in 1982 found that his killers could not be identified.

The involvement of a security police death squad came to light in 1989.

Granting amnesty to three Vlakplaas members for Mxenge’s murder, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), however, said in 1996 that it could not make a finding as to who gave the order for the murder.

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