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Original Post Date: 2008-10-30 Time: 12:00:17 Posted By: Jan
The widow of slain SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani says her husband’s murderer is a danger to society because of his political beliefs and that he should not be released on parole.
Limpho Hani made the comment in an affidavit filed at the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to oppose an urgent application by Clive Derby-Lewis for the department of correctional Services to release him immediately on parole.
She said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had found that Derby-Lewis committed the murder to “create a climate of hostility between the black and white citizens” and cause a “bloodbath”.
“This situation of chaos would then have been exploited by the rightwing and conservative elements of the white population to stage a coup d’etat.
I submit that it would be wrong to release a person who holds such views into society when he has not placed any evidence before the Parole Board or this court that he no longer holds such dangerous beliefs,” she added.
Authorities have already found Derby-Lewis to be eligible for parole, but say the matter should first be referred to the Hani family for comment – the correctional services Act states that as a relative, she has the right to be heard before a final decision is made.
Derby-Lewis, 72, was sentenced to life behind bars, but after serving 15 years, he applied for release on parole.
In his parole application, he said that he had successfully completed several rehabilitation programmes in prison for which he received certificates.
These include rehabilitation programmes on anger and stress management, leadership skills, relationship management, communication skills, life skills, HIV/Aids and a course on attention deficit disorder.
The Parole Board granted his application, but the process was delayed after the Hani family was asked to comment in writing.
The delay prompted him to lodge the court application seeking immediate release.
The other respondents cited are the area manager of correctional services, the chair of the correctional supervision and Parole Board in Pretoria, chair of the Case Management Committee of the prison, and the head of the prison.
When Hani heard about the application, she immediately instructed her lawyers to apply for her to join as a respondent.
Hani said that the act, required Derby-Lewis to state the full circumstances which led him to commit the murder.
He also had to “show an appreciation of the gravity of that crime and to show remorse”.
But Hani said Derby-Lewis had failed to do this.
The National Council for Correctional Services (NCCS) has also applied to intervene in the proceedings as an interested party, saying Derby-Lewis’s application should have been submitted to it so that it could make a recommendation to the minister.
NCCS member Charl Cilliers said in an affidavit that the council was the only party authorised by statute to consider the granting of parole to Derby-Lewis.
Derby-Lewis’s court application was set down for on Tuesday but did not go ahead after Hani’s application to join the proceedings and the NCCS’s intervention.
Derby-Lewis’s attorney, Marius Coertze, said the parties would have to apply for a date for the hearing.