FATIEMA Haron-Masoet was 6-years-old when her dad, Imam Abdullah Haron, an anti-apartheid activist, died in detention.
Haron, 45, had been summoned to the Caledon Square police station in Cape Town on May 28, 1969, to be questioned about his political activities in South Africa and abroad.
He was detained by the security branch in terms of Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, kept in solitary confinement for 123 days, interrogated and tortured.
On September 27, 1969, he was found dead in his cell at the Maitland Police Station. Police, at the time, claimed he fell down a flight of stairs.
During an inquest into his death in February 1970, it emerged Haron suffered 26 bruises to his body. The magistrate at the time, JSP Kuhn, ruled no one was responsible…