South Africa convicts ex-apartheid cops for 1987 killing

Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa have been found guilty of murdering student leader and activist Caiphus Nyoka nearly four decades after his killing, in a case that highlights renewed efforts to confront unresolved crimes from the white-minority era.

A Gauteng High Court judge in Johannesburg on Tuesday convicted Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander, both believed to be in their 60s, for Nyoka’s 1987 killing….