Another witness asserts that Ahmed Timol died in the morning, not afternoon
A second witness has blown out of the water the claim by apartheid police that it was in the afternoon when anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol fell to his death, from the 10th floor of the John Vorster Square building, in 1971.The autopsy report recorded Timol’s death to be at about 4pm, but Mohammed Adam‚ who worked at Dollars Petrol Station across the road from the building‚ on Thursday told the inquest‚ heard in the High Court in Pretoria‚ that the incident occurred mid-morning.Adam said he was on tea break when his boss drew his attention to a commotion at John Vorster Square. He said it took him about four minutes to cross the busy street and that there were a few people already gathered at the scene."I was about 10m away [and] what I could see was a body lying there. I could say the body was facing up because the shoe was pointed up‚" he said.Adam said the body‚ obscured by shrubs‚ was lying about 2m from the edge of the building. He said he was not at the scene for long as m...
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