The Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni is expected to deliver judgment in the murder case of Daveyton student activist Caiphus Nyoka.

Three former apartheid security officers, Leon Louis van den Berg, Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and Pieter Egbert Stander, are accused of killing Nyoka while he was asleep at his family home in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni, in August 1987.

An inquest into his death in the late 1990s found that police had acted in self-defence and deemed the shooting justifiable.

The 20-year-old student leader was active in various youth formations, including COSAS served as SRC President at Mabuya High School.

But a 2019 confession by one of the officers, Johan Marais, led to the prosecution of the former apartheid police members.

Marais, a former East Rand Reaction Unit officer, admitted to the killing and was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment last year after pleading guilty.

The remaining three accused maintain their innocence and will hear their fate when Judge Ismail Mohammed hands down judgment.

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