Dr Neil Aggett’s sister said on Wednesday that when a police officer came knocking on her door on February 5 1982, she thought he was delivering news that the anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist was being released from John Vorster Square,  where he had been detained.

“I was quite excited,” Jill Burger told the high court in Johannesburg, which is holding an inquest into the circumstances surrounding Aggett’s death...

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