After years of listening to the SA Communist Party leaders, cadres and sundry rabble state that Clive Derby-Lewis did not make full disclosure during his 1993 trial for the murder of Chris Hani, we decided to request the SA Police to question Blade Nzimande, Alex Mashilo and Khaya Xaba of the SA Communist Party regarding what knowledge they obviously have about a wider conspiracy.
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 SA Police. Earlier this year I requested the SAPS Gauteng Area Commissioner to investigate these people, and a captain and a colonel were sent to me in furtherance of this request. To date they have done nothing – they don’t even report back to me despite numerous requests by phone, by sms and by e-mail. The colonel eventually told me he has handed the matter over to someone else but that someone else hasn’t contacted me either.
Clearly even the SAPS is scared to approach these political untouchables who are dictating the law with regard to Derby-Lewis, and backing their agenda with violent protests in the streets.
It should be remembered that during the 1993 trial, the SAPS and the prosecution hid the information from us that Chris Hani had spent the night before he died with a Transkei air hostess in a Kempton Park hotel, and this was the reason why he had no bodyguards. He gave them the night off. By hiding the information, the prosecution created the impression that Walus knew Hani would be on his own, and that he – Walus – had received this information from someone in the then NP government. This gave rise to the theory of the “wider conspiracy”.
It was only during Derby-Lewis’s TRC amnesty hearing in 1998 that I trawled through the police records and found the evidence of Hani’s tryst with the air hostess. In addition, a private ANC investigation into the Hani killing which was sent to me came to the conclusion that there was no further conspiracy and that I had had nothing to do with the Hani assassination.
These vital pieces of information were withheld from us in 1993, completely illegally and with the collusion of the State prosecutor in 1993, and Mr. George Bizos, attorney for the Hani family in the 1998 TRC hearing.
Now the SACP rabble is dictating to the country that Derby-Lewis must not even be released on medical parole! What do you say to this Mr. Zuma? Are they running the country or are you?
We appreciate the various churches’ statements on the granting of parole for Derby-Lewis, but we hear nothing from the so-called Christians of the Afrikaans churches, and not a peep from the liberal Mr. James Selfe, DA spokesman on prisons, from the party that propagates fairness for everyone and equality under the law.
We cannot change the DNA of the SACP street terrorists, but we surely can appeal to those South Africans who purport to uphold the law for everyone on an equal basis.
Clearly the SACP is afraid of a 78 year old man.
It’s time South Africa realized that those in the streets, shouting and jumping up and down are in fact setting the legal agenda. If this is so, where will everything end? Will the piggy-backing SACP decide on who will live and who will die in the future? Will they go back to their roots?
The Derby-Lewis case is a watershed for the equal application of the law in South Africa.
We are now approaching the Public Protector with our file and asking her to demand that the police do their job. The police can take the file out of the hands of the gutless two officers who did nothing, and give it to someone who believes that everyone is equal under the law. Failing that, we will take legal action against the police. No one is untouchable in South Africa, and they must learn this.
Gaye Derby-Lewis
PRESS RELEASE FROM GAYE DERBY-LEWIS
South Africa Today – South Africa News
