BENONI - Former apartheid police officer Johan Marais is being sentenced by the Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni for the 1987 killing of student activist Caiphus Nyoka.
Marais is one of three men charged in connection with Nyoka’s murder.
He has pleaded guilty, while his co-accused, Leon Louis van den Berg and Abraham Engelbrecht, maintain their innocence.
Nyoka was a prominent leader of COSAS in Daveyton and a regional coordinator for Transco East Rand.
He was shot dead by members of a police unit allegedly created to eliminate individuals labelled terrorists by the apartheid regime.