10-07-2025
Former apartheid cop gets 15 years for 1987 murder of Caiphus Nyoka
Johan Marais, the former apartheid cop who pleaded guilty to the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka, has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
Marais, 66, appeared in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Thursday, more than 37 years after he gunned down Nyoka on 23 August 1987 in Daveyton, Gauteng.
Marais, who pleaded guilty to the crime, said he was given an order to assassinate Nyoka.
Judge Mokhine Mosopa said his sentence had to fit the punishment and serve as a deterrent and retribution.
