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Original Post Date: 2007-10-04 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Here we see the “ANC Time”. I’ve mocked it before. A criminal gets 20 years – so 20 years is now “life”. But “by accident” – or, as we used to say as kids, was he let go “accidentally on purpose?”. I suspect the latter. Then he goes on a wild shooting spree. Why is he even out of jail?
I kid you not, but a SERIAL KILLER will probably be out of prison and on to the streets in 25 years or less. I doubt that happens anywhere in the WORLD.
I wrote about ANC time before: SA: The ANC Love-Fest with Murdering Criminals: Life = 25 years
[Cartoon] UK Crime, like S.African Crime measured in ANC Years… Jan]
By Sherlissa Peters
Two traumatised families and a High Court judge are asking how a murderer sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment was freed after serving only six years and then went on a shooting spree in which he critically wounded his fiance before killing himself.
Pietermaritzburg traffic officer Makhosazana “Ruth” Ntuli was critically injured on Saturday night when she was shot in her Westgate home by her fiance Sibusiso Vilikazi, who then turned the gun on himself.
Ntuli was rushed to hospital where she is still in a serious, but stable, condition. She was shot multiple times and doctors consider it miraculous that she escaped with her life. Vilikazi was pronounced dead at the scene.
| ‘He shot this woman in broad daylight while she was sitting behind her desk’ |
It has since been established that Vilikazi is a former SA National Defence Force reserve soldier, who was previously convicted of shooting dead Lieutenant Carol Herbst, a clerk at Pietermaritzburg’s Commando headquarters in Oribi Village, in January 2000.
Vilikazi was initially sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for Herbst’s murder, which was later overturned by a full bench consisting of Judges Pete Combrinck, Willem Booysen and Dumile Kondile in February 2003. His jail sentence was increased to a term of 20 years.
Combrinck, said he was “shocked and saddened” that Vilikazi was apparently paroled just three years later.
Combrinck was quoted in media reports on Wednesday as saying that he clearly recalled Vilikazi’s appeal.
“He shot this woman in broad daylight while she was sitting behind her desk. She had given him no reason whatsoever.
| ‘He was clearly guilty’ |
“He was dissatisfied with something to do with his work, but she had absolutely nothing to do with it. He fired at her twice with a rifle.”
Combrinck said Vilikazi was acquitted by the trial court of the attempted murder of a guard, Clement Ndlovu, and that he and other judges commented in their judgment that they disagreed with his acquittal on that charge.
“He was clearly guilty of the attempted murder of the guard and I said so in the judgment,” Combrinck was quoted as saying.
“It is quite unbelievable that a man who committed such a serious crime was let loose on the public again so soon.
“I can only think that through some administrative error the authorities might have believed that the original sentence of seven years was still in place.”
However, he was released from jail on parole last year after serving just six years of that sentence.
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has now come under fire by the families of both Herbst and Ntuli, who are demanding reasons for Vilikazi’s early release.
Sources close to the investigation of Herbst’s murder are reported to have labelled Vilikazi a “ticking time bomb waiting to explode” and described him as an aggressive, arrogant person with a short temper.
“We are demanding answers. A young woman is fighting for her life in hospital because a dangerous and violent criminal was set free. What are the criteria for the early release of prisoners who have committed serious and violent crimes? We deserve to know,” said a close relative of Ntuli’s who declined being named.
The relative confirmed that the family was struggling to come to terms with what had happened.
Herbst’s family declined to speak to the media , but a close friend, Charlene Davenport, told the Daily News yesterday that they believed that justice had not been served in Vilikazi’s case.
“Did this man receive any emotional and psychological help while in prison?” Davenport asked.
Statistics released by the DCS in July last year indicated that only 28 psychologists are employed by the department to consult with more than 110 000 prisoners in South Africa.
An alarming fact is that many offenders are paroled without seeing a psychologist.
Official statistics from the psychological service division of the DCS show that the department employs just one psychologist for every 4 000 prisoners.
A social worker who has been employed at the DCS for about nine years said that the system of rehabilitation was non-existent.
“There are too many prisoners and not enough support staff to go around. This needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency,” the social worker said.
“Prisoners are leaving jail more criminalised than when they got there, with statistics confirming that more than 80 percent of released prisoners resort to crime after their release,” said the social worker.
Numerous attempts to contact the DCS were unsuccessful by the time of going to press.