Johan Marais

In the early hours of August 24 1987, about 2.30am, Lumka Mahanjana of the National Prosecuting Authority recalled in the Pretoria high courtr, 'Johan Marais, together with Sgt Pieter Stander, Sgt Abram Hercules Engelbrecht and other members of the reaction unit who are also charged separately, arrived at Nyoka’s homestead' at 999 Lemba Street, Daveyton, 'and stormed his room. They found him with three of his friends sleeping. After identifying him, they removed the friends from the room and thereafter proceeded to shoot him nine times. He died on the scene'. Police claimed at a 1988/89 inquest that Nyoka had had a concealed knife, but Marais now admits that was a lie.