[This is DISGUSTING! The TRC is over… and here they go.

I wonder if these bastards would have done this in the event of PW Botha still being alive? PW fought for Afrikaners behind the scenes. I know that for a fact. It is not public knowledge – but he did fight to save some people and he caused HELL quietly from his home in The Wilderness before he died.

It will be interesting to watch how far these bastards take it. They think they can just stand on our necks.

As for attempting to kill the Reverend Frank Chikane. Good Lord, we should start a fund and collect money and give it as a PRESENT to the men who tried to kill him! Damned right, I’d write out a cheque myself as a tribute to them trying to do good work. The Reverend Frank Chikane, like the Reverend Allan Boesak are Communist scum in theologians clothes. I’ve heard the kind of twisted Liberation Theology they preached. Frank Chikane is one of the worst low-lifes that ever stood on a pulpit. The only thing I think those men should apologise for is for the fact that their attempt at killing him did not succeed.

The Security Police under Apartheid did great work. They quietly buggered up the ANC. I once even called on them in the late 1980’s when I worked for a company where the Trade Unions were spreading communism and murdering blacks. The Security Police could not help much, but the Major I spoke to was a very decent guy and he told me that without certain hard evidence he could do nothing. The ANC of course portrays the Security Police as evildoers and maniacs – but in actual fact I think they rocked.

I really feel sorry for those Policemen. If only one could actually help them.

I have always believed that talking and negotiating with the ANC is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. Look now… 12 years later… the ANC coming back after those whites. Why now? To intimidate the whites?

Good luck to the ANC… let them keep on kicking us around as the mood takes them… Jan]

Cape Town – The national prosecuting authority (NPA) has informed three security policemen that they are to be prosecuted for apartheid crimes.

These will be the first prosecutions since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

The case is related to attempts to poison the Rev Frank Chikane, who is now the director-general of the presidency.

Beeld has the names of the three security police officers and has established that they have been informed by their legal representative that the NPA intends to go ahead with prosecutions.

The move paves the way for prosecution of former minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and former chief of police General Johan van der Merwe, who are both fully aware of, and prepared for, what will follow, according to sources.

Address to the nation

The NPA did not want to confirm or deny that the prosecutions were to begin.

In political circles, speculation is rife that the planned prosecutions could open a hornet’s nest in the week of President Thabo Mbeki’s address to the nation.

The question of prosecuting apartheid-era crimes is politically loaded, as some believe that they’re necessary to conclude the TRC process, while others feel they could destroy reconciliation.

It appears that members of the latter group could use high-level political pressure to try to prevent prosecutions.

In terms of policy and the constitution, the decision to prosecute lies with the national director of prosecutions, advocate Vusi Pikoli, and not with the government.

Questions already have been asked in high circles about the equanimity of the NPA, and if well-known African National Congress figures who did not get amnesty, would be prosecuted.

One of the ANC members whose amnesty application was turned down was Thabo Mbeki, who applied with a number of other ANC members.

Vlok was in the news recently when he washed Chikane’s feet to atone for the attempt to poison him while he was general secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

The three security policemen were connected to the same plot to kill Chikane.

Vlok’s step was lauded last year by Mbeki, who added that South Africans should learn to listen more closely to each other across the boundaries of apartheid.

Vlok did not want to respond to rumours that he could be prosecuted. Van der Merwe also remained silent.

Johan Wagener, legal representative of the three security policemen, said the NPA informed him of their decision at the end of last month.

He did not want to comment on any particulars.

The latest events follow the tabling in parliament last January of a new prosecution policy on apartheid crimes, among other things.

The victim has a say

It includes a clause that gives the NPA discretion on whether or not to prosecute, if it is not in “the national interest”.

One of the factors that must be taken into account is whether the apartheid victim wants the prosecution to go ahead.

In Chikane’s case, he has indicated that he is not interested in prosecution, but that he wants full disclosure on the attempt on his life.

He has also indicated that the government is not interested in time-consuming prosecutions.

The NPA has indicated, nevertheless, that prosecution will go ahead.

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