Die Minister van Justisie en Korrektiewe Dienste, Michael Masutha, sal na verwagting vanoggend aankondig of die voormalige bevelvoerder van Vlakplaas, Eugene de Kock, op parool vrygelaat gaan word.
De Kock het die Noord-Gautengse Hooggeregshof in Pretoria in Mei genader oor ‘n besluit in dié verband, het RSG berig.
Die Nasionale raad oor Korrektiewe Dienste het ‘n aanbeveling daaroor in November verlede jaar gemaak.
Die aanbeveling is na die destydse minister, S’bu Ndebele gestuur, maar dit was onsuksesvol. De Kock het hom daarna tot die hof gewend.
Hy is in 1996 twee keer lewenslange gevangenisstraf en nog 212 jaar opgelê.
Intussen word uitsluitsel oor die mediese paroolaansoek van Clive Derby-Lewis ook met spanning afgewag.
Derby-Lewis is skuldig bevind aan die sluipmoord op die kommunis Chris Hani.
Sy vrou, Gaye Derby-Lewis het Woensdag onderstaande brief aan die Business Day gerig ivm met sy vrylating:
I REFER to your report, “Derby-Lewis should not be freed — SACP” (July 4).
This comment has appeared with regularity for 20 years, gaining momentum after Clive Derby-Lewis’s truth commission hearing in 1997-98. Each time, our family has called on the South African Communist Party (SACP) to produce the evidence of the “wider conspiracy”, which lie they spread with impunity. Nothing is ever forthcoming. Despite calls by the Young Communist League to reopen the Chris Hani (pictured) case in 2006, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) declined, saying that even when the case was before the truth commission, “various (commission) organs could not establish new facts around Mr Hani’s murder”.
Derby-Lewis was recommended for parole by the Parole Board in 2007, for release in October 2008. The latter date came and went. We took the case to court and lost on spurious grounds. He was recommended twice more, and each time was refused by the minister at the time.
Early this year, I asked the police to reopen the case. I asked them to question Blade Nzimande, Jeremy Cronin and other SACP members who are still declaring there is a wider conspiracy. They did nothing — too scared, I believe, to question the untouchables. I’m now asking the NPA to take action. If these people continue to talk about a conspiracy when clearly there is none, they are guilty of obstruction of justice as it is this lie that has gone a long way to precluding Derby-Lewis from obtaining parole.
We will wait and see whether the NPA has the guts to confront these charlatans from the piggyback party.
Ruil De Kock vir “voetwas” Vlokkie en Flatwheel EFWeetjie
Ruil Clive en Januz vir Roelfie en Wessels
Dis tyd dat die dinge reg gestel word.
Sien nou eers ek en jy het dieselfde kommentaar –
he he he great minds think alike
Beide sake na aan my hart !
Eugene het in opdrag van die destydse regering opgetree – LAAT HOM VRY !
Verseker is daar meer agter die vrylating van Oom Clive.
Dankie Front Nasionaal vir julle grootmoedige, voortgesette deelname om hom so spoedig moontlik tuis te kry by Tannie Gaye en laaste, maar nie die minste, die prokureur, Marius Coertze.
Nie net moet hy vryraak nie – die wat hom die opdragte gegee het – Pienk Frik, Pik, Roelf, Adderjan Vlok ens – moet in sy plek sit.