FAAS, Adri 'Aaron'

... in the Western Cape (from the Winelands HRV hearings, 14 to 16 October) including voluntary testimony from a policeman on duty the night Adri Faas was killed by a fellow policeman. The following segment focuses on violence on the East Rand during the tumultuous eighties, including the ...

Adri Faas was a 19 year old law student when he was gunned down by police in Paarl in 1985. He was returning from his girlfriend’s home when it happened here in this quiet street near the police station in the suburb of Huguenot. His unsuspecting parents received the fateful telephone call the ...

The sadness and bitterness left by the death of Adri ripped the Faas family apart. His death triggered a tragic sequence of events. // After his death my mother became ill and things started going wrong in our home. And then it came about that my one brother committed suicide in 1993 when he saw ...

... of the Truth Commission a policeman voluntarily took the stand to give supporting evidence. Capt Peter John Clayton had been on duty the night Adri Faas was shot. He told the Truth Commission what had happened that evening. // I cannot remember whether it was a yellow or a white Ford Cortina ...

The official inquiry into Adri Faas’ death found that nobody was responsible for his shooting and that no crime had been committed. For Alexander Faas this was difficult to accept, since the policeman responsible had told him to his face that he had shot his son.