Reporter Tony Weaver was charged with breaking apartheid-era censorship laws for his reporting on the Gugulethu Seven murders. As the trial started in 1987, Weaver’s defence team found crucial witnesses to the Gugulethu Seven murders the previous year. This extract from Beverley Roos-Muller’s book ‘Hunting the Seven’, describes how it came about.
Despite their deep concern about the missing ballistics, some surprisingly good news had arrived for the defence in the nick of time, on the very first day of Weaver’s trial back in April. Gordon Rushton was contacted by a colleague, Andrew Corbett, at that time an articled clerk in Cape Town, who had a contact at the Astra School for physically disabled children in Wittebome, near Wynberg.
This contact told Corbett that some of their staff and
