Timol A Quest For Justice  

A Real Life Murder Mystery

Haunting, sad, poignant—and all true. This is the ultimate story about apartheid in South Africa. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about apartheid in South Africa.

You can read a description of this real life murder mystery below

Ahmed Timol is one of the most celebrated murder victims of apartheid South Africa — in the grim company of Solwande ‘Looksmart’ Ngudle, Joseph Mdluli, Dr Hoosen Haffejee, Steve Biko, Neil Aggett, the Imam Haroon and so many others.

The technique of ‘defenestration’ – being teasingly dangled and sometimes dropped by accident or on purpose, from a high police window — was immortalized in his own death. So was the chilling term that Security Police would use to mock his fate, “Indians can’t fly”.

On October 27th, 1971, Ahmed Timol plunged ten storeys and hit the ground under bushes at Johannesburg’s notorious John Vorster Square police station, named after apartheid’s worst securocrat, the man who introduced the torture laws as Justice Minister in 1963, before becoming apartheid Prime Minister.

This is Timol’s story.

Foreword by President Thabo Mbeki