Aggett’s sister turns away in tears as his death is re-enacted
22 January 2020 - 05:54
By Naledi Shange
Image: Gallo/Sunday Times Jane Starfield mourns dead security police detainee Dr Neil Aggett outside John Vorster Square in Johannesburg on February 9 1982.
It was the first time Jill Burger had been in the cell in which her brother, trade unionist Dr Neil Aggett, died.
And her anguish was visible as she watched as a young man tied a noose around the steel bars of one of the cells, attempting to reenact her brother’s supposed suicide.
