JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Dirk Coetzee, who led an apartheid-era death squad and later sought protection from the resistance movement that brought down South Africa's white minority government, has died, a hospital said on Thursday.
Coetzee, 57, was a former police captain who blew the lid on his hit squad and fled the country in 1989, unleashing revelations that deepened the global isolation of the apartheid regime.
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