Four former apartheid-era guards on trial over 1983 student murder
Nokuthula Simelane, a student and ANC courier, vanished after being abducted and tortured by police during apartheid regime
January 2015
Death squad leader Eugene de Kock granted parole - video
South African death squad leader Eugene de Kock to be freed from jail
July 2014
South Africa's apartheid-era assassin 'Prime Evil' denied parole
Eugene de Kock was sentenced in 1996 to two life terms for murder and other crimes as head of police death squad
June 2014
The day I hugged apartheid's 'Prime Evil'
Eugene de Kock was the head of South Africa's death squad, which tortured and killed opponents of apartheid. Matthew Marsh, now playing De Kock in A Human Being Died That Night, recalls an astonishing meeting with the assassin in a Pretoria jail
January 2010
South African police assassin's rumoured pardon sparks bitter row
President Jacob Zuma may free ex-colonel Eugene de Kock, nicknamed 'prime evil' for running apartheid-era hit squad
November 2003
'I embraced the hand that had killed and maimed'
Nicknamed 'Prime Evil', Eugene de Kock was apartheid's chief murderer. Now a psychologist from the townships says it's time to forgive him. She tells Rory Carroll why.
