What Is Ahmed Timol Case Study

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INTRODUCTION
Ahmed Timol biography
Ahmed Timol, 1941-1960, son of Haki Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail Dinar. He went to a primary school in Roodepoort and matriculated from Johannesburg Indian High School. He acquired a love for teaching children so he enrolled in the Johannesburg Training Institute for Indians, made possible by a scholarship received from the Kholwad Mardessa. There, he was a part of the student representative counsel as he was known for his bold, outspoken demeanour. Timol had a hand in administration and was very good at sports but these activities were overshadowed by the innate wish for freedom fighting. In 1965, he moved to London to teach and in 1969, he went to the Lenin university for political training. In 1970 …show more content…

Ahmed Timol was murdered. Timol’s family was convinced that his death was not as it seemed and appealed to the courts to re-visit his case upon the revelation of new evidence. The re-opening of the case was granted, June 2017, 46 years after the death of Timol. The South African non–profit Foundation on Human Rights (FHR) as well as the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICT) assisted the Timol family in attaining the attention for this matter (Dreamfuel, …show more content…

Faith being placed in the justice system yielded a re-opening of the trial. There should be no limitations on justice and the courts have shown this a noble cause.

The re-opening of this case was the mission for the family of Timol. Specifically, for Cajee.
He wanted to see justice for his uncle and he did so by producing a book, Timol: Quest for Justice and helped develop documentaries and exhibitions in accordance to his work. Accompanied by former president Thabo Mbeki, Timol attended political training and former president Nelson Mandela renamed a secondary school after him. These two occasions are a testament to the character of Timol and shows just how honourable re-opening the trial is (Dreamfuel, 2017).

In 1972, the judge ruled Ahmed Timol’s death an accident (Ahmed Timol, 2011). There is hope that the new laws and evidence submitted rules in favour of true

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