Apartheid police propaganda artist describes seeing Ahmed Timol’s body fall
Ernest Matthis has also told the inquest into Timol’s death about how he forged Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s signature
Tactics used by apartheid security forces‚ including a forged letter claiming to be from Desmond Tutu‚ have been laid bare during the inquest into the death of political activist Ahmed Timol.Ernest Matthis‚ a prosecutor at the time of Timol’s death‚ explained to the High Court in Pretoria on Monday how he saw Timol’s body fall from a 10th-floor window at John Vorster Square‚ now called Johannesburg Central Police Station.Matthis had been given an office at the police station while investigating a case involving an insurance company at the time."I was standing some distance from the window and I saw a person fall. He landed … with his arm bent beyond his head. I looked up and I couldn’t see anything. I could not see an open window." Matthis rushed to the window to see what had actually happened."I saw him lying about a metre-and-a-half from the building. He was lying in a plank position. I looked up and I saw no opened window."He then called an official in Parliament and informed him...
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