Coetzee was the first security policeman to publicly confess and recant for his crimes.

Support for police assassination squads has come from the commanding heights of South Africa’s security forces.

In the midst of allegations of security police assassination squads, Brigadier Willem Schoon has suddenly retired from the police force.

I was told to kill these activists, says ‘hit-squad’ policeman on death-row.

The news came through on the wires shortly before 10am last Friday – three men had been hanged at Pretoria Central Prison at dawn.

Affidavit implicates top officers in murder of lawyer Griffiths Mxenge.