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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Parents have been urged not to place undue pressure on their children as this could have a negative effect on them.
Addressing delegates at the Gauteng North Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GNCCI) networking session at the CSIR International Convention Centre, former bank robber and member of the Stander gang Allan Heyl said parents should not force their children to do things they do not like.
“If you are a policeman and your child wants to be a plumber, you should encourage them to do that,” Heyl said.
Parents should also reassure children that failure is not the end of the world.
“We should not put any undue pressure on our children as it has a negative effect on them.”
Heyl said his father wanted him to be a teacher and to have a university degree which he (his father) did not have.
“At that stage I was a miserable person because I did not see myself as a teacher, but saw myself a motor-cycle mechanic. I visualised myself working on those racing motor cycles on the circuit in Europe as a mechanic,” he said.
Heyl said had poor self-esteem and at one stage spent a week in bed, “wishing to die”.
This resulted in him missing the examinations for his teaching diploma.
Heyl moved to the Western Cape where he was employed as a store manager for a leading retail company.
“I had to wake up at 5am to open the store and count yoghurts and other foodstuff and, after a while, I decided I could not do it anymore.
“This resulted in my losing the job and my landlord threatening to kick me out if I did not pay my rent which was in arrears.”
Heyl said he walked past a small bank in the area and decided to rob it.
This was the beginning of his life as a bank robber. Together with former police captain Andre Stander, he went on to rob more than 20 banks in the 80s.
Heyl, who spent time at the Zonderwater prison near Cullinan, said Stander had “issues” and was an unhappy person.
“One of the reasons was that his father was a police general and he wanted him to become a police officer, something which he did not want,” he said.
On November 10, 1991, he was sent back to South Africa to complete his previous sentence.
In June 1993, another 18 years were added for his crime spree with Stander.
He said the realisation that he may spend the rest of his life in prison did not depress him and he approached the head of Pretoria Central prison and asked him if he could open a school.
“He was hesitant but later agreed that we should start the project. I was moved to Zonderwater where I was given an office and a computer,” said Heyl.
He said that his life on the run and in prisons in the UK and South Africa had taught him that one could not get rich by ill-gotten gains.
“But one thing for sure is that once you start on that slippery slope, it ends up in disaster,” he said.