Overview
- The second sitting reopened in the Gqeberha High Court on 13 October with family and community testimony on the 1985 murders.
- First witness Mbulelo Goniwe told the court a police officer pulled Matthew Goniwe from a car on the N10, pointed a gun at his head and threatened to kill him shortly before the attack.
- Mbulelo Goniwe said he later opened a police case over the threat, describing pervasive surveillance and intimidation in Cradock at the time.
- Counsel for the families reiterated claims that a State Security Council 'security signal' recommended the activists be 'permanently removed from society,' framing the killings as premeditated.
- Further testimony is expected over the next two weeks from former Security Branch and SANDF members, with Eugene de Kock and Deputy Minister Bantu Holomisa among those slated to appear.