Apartheid cop says he ‘might only live for five years’ as Nyoka murder sentencing is delayed
Postponement The state also brought an application for leave to appeal the acquittal of the former commanding officer, 75-year-old Major Leon Louis van den Berg.
The sentencing of former apartheid sergeants 63-year-old Hercules Engelbrecht and 60-year-old Pieter Stander was scheduled to start at the Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni on Monday, 21 July 2026.
One of the men convicted of murdering anti-apartheid student activist Caiphus Nyoka stunned the High Court in Pretoria when he declared that he has only five years left to live.
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