DR RANDERA
I will ask you the story shortly for you to tell me the story shortly. ....police raided at least 115 homes and offices across the country ostensibly in search of goods and documents relating to banned organisations, offences under the security laws.  At least seven people, mainly Indians were detained.  Among these was Ahmed Timol a 30 year-old schoolteacher and his brother Mohammed.
 On the 28th of October 1971 it was announced that Ahmed JOHANNESBURG HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
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Timol had died the previous day after a fall from the 10th floor window of John Vorster Square.  Brigadier P Kruger and Sergeant Rodrigues both stated that Timol had committed suicide by jumping out of the window.
 I also want to read a little about the investigation and the inquest.  After numerous calls for a full judicial inquiry and inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol began in late April 1972. On the 22nd of June 1972 magistrate Mr J J L De Villiers found that Timol had committed suicide and that there was no one to blame for his death.  The magistrate deduced that as Timol was a self-confessed communist, and I quote,
"That he had been familiar with instructions given by the party to its members, these instructions included to commit suicide rather than betray the Communist Party".
Furthermore the magistrate believed that Timol had committed suicide because he blamed himself for the information he had revealed to the security police and because he feared long imprisonment.  The magistrate summed up the motives for Ahmed Timol's suicide by stating,
"At this stage of his life the opportunity was there and he used it".
 Auntie Hawa do you remember that I came to your home the other night?