Johannesburg – The wife of convicted Clive Derby-Lewis plans to approach the Public Protector to force police and government departments to do their job.
“No, I haven’t laid a complaint yet, but I will approach her because it’s the Public Protector’s job to make sure a government department does its job,” Gaye Derby-Lewis said on Monday.
She wants her husband to be released on medical parole.
“Failing that, we will take legal action against the police. No one is untouchable in South Africa, and they must learn this.”
In an e-mail, she alleged SA Communist Party members were making it difficult for her husband to get parole.
“After years of listening to the SACP leaders… state that Clive Derby-Lewis did not make full disclosure during his 1993 trial… we decided to request the SAPS to question Blade Nzimande 1/8and others 3/8… regarding what knowledge they obviously have about a wider conspiracy,” she said.
Nzimande is SACP general secretary.
“If they state in public that there is indeed a wider conspiracy, then it stands to reason that they should hand the information to back their statements to the SAPS.”
In February, IOL quoted SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo saying it would continue to oppose parole for her husband…
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