ANC-lawyer tries to keep terminally ill Derby-Lewis in jail

Justice Minister Michael Masutha acted in accordance with the law when he denied terminally-ill Clive Derby-Lewis parole, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday.

“We submit that the decision by the first respondent [Justice Minister Michael Masutha] was a rational decision taken in accordance with the law in consistency with the requirements of the controlling legislation,” advocate Marumo Moerane SC, representing Masutha, told Judge Selby Baqwa.

Moerane was responding to an urgent motion launched by Derby-Lewis, who is seeking release on medical parole.

The lawyer said Masutha’s decision should not be reviewed or set aside through the judicial process.

“It is common cause the applicant is suffering from a terminal disease that is lung cancer which is inoperable with marginal response to concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy,” said Moerane.

“We submit that however there is no failure of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. There is just marginal response.”
Among other reasons for denying parole, Moerane said Masutha was of the view that Derby-Lewis had not shown remorse “for his heinous act”.

Baqwa then asked Moerane to explain how Derby-Lewis’s repeated apologies could be discounted.

“At what stage does one say a person has been remorseful? He [Derby-Lewis] has said so and that is as much as he can say. On what basis does the minister discount the expressions put in front of him,” said Baqwa.

Moerane responded: “The first respondent was not satisfied that the applicant has shown remorse for the crime committed by him. The first respondent was accordingly not satisfied that the requirement in the [Correctional Services] Act was met for purposes of placement on medical parole”.

“Our broad submission is that the applicant was just paying lip service to remorse. To use a colloquilism, they say talk is cheap. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

Earlier on Monday, Derby-Lewis’s representative advocate Roelof du Plessis narrated his dying client’s condition.

“The recommendation of the medical parole advisory board refers to a stage 3b cancer of the right lung with probable or inconclusive spread to the left adrenal glands, is inoperable and there is marginal response to concurrent chemo and radiotherapy with poor prognostic features,” said Du Plessis.

“The medical aid parole advisory board took into consideration the age and gender of the patient because men die earlier than women currently, my lord. They took into consideration the history of the tumour and co-mobilities, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, prostate cancer which is in remission, skin cancer and on the basis of that they eventually recommended medical parole.”

Derby-Lewis is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the assassination of SA Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani in April 1993 and has repeatedly been denied parole.

“This case is about a terminally-ill man who wants to die among his family and friends,” said Du Plessis.
Du Plessis argued that Masutha should have implemented the recommendation of the board and released Derby-Lewis.

In January, Masutha had announced that there were several problems with a medical parole bid by Derby-Lewis.

“There is nothing to suggest that Mr Derby-Lewis’ condition is such that he is rendered physically incapacitated as a result of injury, disease or illness so as to severely limit daily activity or self-care,” Masutha said at the time.

Masutha told reporters in January that the medical parole board had recommended that Derby-Lewis be released.

“In making my decision [to decline parole] I took into account the applicable legislation, recommendations made by the board as well as the submission made by Mrs Hani and the SACP,” the minister said at the time.

Masutha said the parole board indicated that Derby-Lewis suffered from stage three b cancer of the lung.

“This finding and recommendation appears to be oblivious of the fact that in the Act, read with relevant regulations, it is an inmate with malignant cancer stage four with metastasis, being inoperable or with both radiotherapy and chemotherapy failure that qualifies,” he had said.

“The rationale of the board’s conclusion in this regard is, on the face of it, difficult for me to comprehend.”

Hani’s widow Limpho sat attentively in court, a row ahead of Derby-Lewis’ wife Gaye.

The matter continues on Tuesday.

Source: ANA

Open letter from Gaye Derby-Lewis to the S. African Communist Party and Mrs. L. Hani

In the matter between Clive Derby-Lewis and Minister of Justice and Correctional Services/Mrs. L. Hani/the SA Communist Party concerning Derby-Lewis’s application for prison release on medical grounds (Case No. 78689/2014), the Gauteng High Court ordered, inter alia, that the second and third respondents make a submission to the court no later than January 9, 2015.

Gaye Derby-Lewis
Gaye Derby-Lewis

Since the TRC hearings in the late nineties, the SA Communist Party, its officials, spokespersons and other sundry commentators such as Tokyo Sexwale, Bantu Holomisa and others have taken it upon themselves to issue regular statements about a so-called “wider conspiracy” and that Clive Derby-Lewis has not “told all” about the Hani assassination in 1993.

The Derby-Lewis family has regularly called upon the SACP to produce the proof of a ”wider conspiracy” and nothing has ever been forthcoming.

Now that Clive Derby-Lewis is terminally ill, the SACP and Mrs. Hani have inserted themselves into a medical-parole application and will make submissions to the court.

On 3 December, Mrs. Hani is reported as saying that Derby-Lewis “did not tell the truth” about her husband’s murder. How does she know this? Her lawyer explained that the crux of his client’s submission is that “this belief (of Derby-Lewis not telling the truth) comes from the trial, the TRC and subsequent proceedings that were brought by Derby-Lewis in seeking parole”. We would like to advise this lawyer that he speaks nonsense. The original trial judgment mentioned nothing about a wider conspiracy. Subsequently, three confidential investigations by none other than the ANC and the SACP (and another agency) came to our attention, and all came to the same conclusion – that there was no wider conspiracy.

The TRC was declared “not a court of law” by none other than its head Bishop Desmond Tutu. On the contrary, it was considered by many to be a biased political witch hunt.

There is no proof whatsoever that there was a wider conspiracy and that Derby-Lewis didn’t tell the truth. We wish to caution the second and third correspondents that if their submission contains assertions of wider conspiracies and no proof is provided, then they are guilty of defeating the ends of justice, and we will lay charges on that basis against them.

This is one time that this fairy story will be challenged in court.

Gaye Derby-Lewis

17 December 2014

Derby-Lewis will not be home for Christmas

Limpho Hani and the SACP officially entered the fray as respondents in the urgent application launched by Clive Derby-Lewis for his release on medical parole.

While it is certain that Derby-Lewis, who has been in the Eugene Marais Hospital since April this year, will not be home for Christmas, he will know his fate by the end of January.

Judge André Louw sitting in the high court in Pretoria, on Tuesday added the late SACP general secretary Chris Hani’s widow and the party itself as respondents in the 78-year-old Derby-Lewis’s latest bid to be released on parole.

Hani attended the court proceedings on Tuesday, but declined to speak to the media. Her lawyer, Mopane Thaanyane, however said it was important for her to join the proceedings and to have a say in the application.

Asked whether she was opposed to the release of Derby-Lewis, Thaanyane said “only she will be able to say”.

He added that neither she, nor the SACP, had yet had access to Derby-Lewis’s medical records and being a party to the proceedings would make this possible.

While the lawyer would not commit himself on whether they would oppose the application or not, he said the Hani family had since the murder maintained that Derby-Lewis hadn’t revealed the full truth about the assassination.

“They would like him to say more about what happened,” Thaanyane said.

Their complaint about a “full truth not yet revealed” however is said to be cheap ploy to keep Derby-Lewis in prison.

Many maintain that Derby-Lewis is in fact innocent. Chris Hani was gunned down on April 10, 1993, by Polish immigrant Janusz Walus, and not by Derby-Lewis.

While Derby-Lewis had provided Walus with a firearm, Walus had previously stated that he intended to use it in self-defence.

In terms of an agreement between his lawyers and Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha, the minister must consider his medical parole by January 31. The minister must on this date also provide his reasons for his decision.

The Medical Parole Advisory Board will consider all Derby-Lewis’s medical reports by December 10 and provide its recommendations to the minister by December 15.

This is the same day on which it will have to make recommendations regarding the possible release of Eugene de Kock on parole.

Derby-Lewis’s application says that he is old and needs frail care, which he will not receive in prison. He has remained in hospital for the past seven months, after he was stabbed in jail by a fellow inmate.

His health has deteriorated to such an extent that he is even too weak to receive surgery.

Coertze said Derby-Lewis suffers from a range of ailments, and his one lung was riddled with cancer.

He said they realised that the Hani family had the right to have a say in his release and thus did not oppose the application.

South African Communist Party should not prevent Clive Derby-Lewis’s release

Jeremy Cronin’s opinions on the release of Clive Derby-Lewis as reported in Business Day not so long ago reflect the extraodinary powers of the South African Communist Party that endure almost 25 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

roodt_dan4Comrade Cronin alludes to “intelligence, military and arms dealer networks” that may have been behind Chris Hani’s assassination, seeing Derby-Lewis as simply a puppet and “dad’s army white supremacist”. Logically, then, there should be no harm in granting him parole as he is probably himself ignorant of these wider, counter-revolutionary forces against which the Party and the State are valiantly resisting, from the safety of their black luxury cars.

Ridiculous and anachronistic as South African communism might be, it must be worrying to the few thinking people left in our country that prominent communists may override state departments, the courts and even the minister concerned, when it comes to the release of a prisoner on parole. We know that Schabir Shaik and Jackie Selebi found it extremely easy to be released on medical parole, yet Cronin scoffs at the notion that Derby-Lewis should even be allowed to die in dignity, at home and surrounded by his family.

Since the 1970s, French intellectuals have shown how totalitarianism was hard-wired into the thinking of Marx, Engels and Lenin. However, underlying the egalitarian fanaticism of communists, were also the ethnic prejudices of a Stalin, a Beria, a Pol Pot or a Mengistu that meted out mass murder to Ukrainians, Poles, Chinese or the ethnic minorities of Ethiopia.

Communism is a secular religion that precludes political pluralism or tolerance. In our country, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani and others practised urban terrorism, as they saw themselves as above the law, including the Geneva Conventions that prohibited attacks on civilians and non-combatants.

While Cronin polishes his own conspiracy theories, he forgets how the SACP used to be in cahoots with the murderous East European regimes and their intelligence agencies, including the Stasi.

Not only is the SACP caught in an ideological time warp, but it has always demonstrated equally dated Boerehaat tendencies. The fact that Derby-Lewis had sided with Afrikaners in the historical conflict that has always plagued South Africa, makes him that much more hated.

All decent people should insist that Derby-Lewis – a former MP and no common criminal – be released, regardless of ideology. At the same time, we may ask: Why should communists be treated with kid gloves for their past crimes against our civilians? Like the Americans, we should claim civil damages from communist terrorists in local and international courts. Many of them are still alive and culpable.

SACP wants amnesty denied to Derby-Lewis

Derby-Lewis and Walus
Derby-Lewis and Walus

At the past weekend the SACP in Gauteng marched to the Kgosi Mampuru correctional facility, handing over a memorandum to the Department of Correctional Services with demands including that any parole application by Hani’s killers, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus be denied. They were both given life sentences, and have served 20 years. Mr Derby-Lewis was denied parole in 2011 and again last year. He was stabbed twice in prison in recent months.

The main reason the SACP opposes their amnesty application is their refusal to divulge the “full circumstances of the killing”.

“They have not disclosed the fuller wider conspiracy and there clearly was one,” says SACP deputy secretary-general Jeremy Cronin, who represented the party when the pair applied for amnesty. Another factor is the continued endorsement of their “toxic” views publicly. Mr Cronin referred to a letter in a national newspaper this week that described Derby-Lewis in glowing terms. The author said “if he (Derby-Lewis) did what he did to prevent communism, then he did very well”.

“This was a letter indicating support for the assassination, basically,” Mr Cronin says.

“Considering whether he should be released or not, that’s another factor, there are people out there who praise them … they are not just lone lunatics who did something very stupid. There are forces who have not been uncovered, who are still lurking in our society; and secondly, there are people who are brazenly supporting what they did, and the newspaper letting that be published.”

He says more should be done to uncover the truth behind the killing of Hani. The SACP does not simply want amnesty denied to them, but it also wants the “networks” to which they belonged uncovered.

Mr Cronin, too, is cautious about treading into the terrain of “what Chris Hani would say” about South Africa today. But he does feel Hani would have been proud that the ANC has remained in power. Hani was the chief of staff of Umkhonto weSizwe and an ANC national executive committee member.

Mr Cronin says the complications inside the alliance would not have surprised Hani, but the factional battle in the Congress of South African Trade Unions would have been a cause for concern.

“Sometimes the stories we tell of a heroic past are a little one-sided. Hani would have been the first to (acknowledge) there were many, many challenges — and (that there) always are in real struggle. He knew real-life organisations have their complexities and complications, and it’s important to build those organisations, to respect their unity, but at the same time be principled.” Hani would have been a “huge asset” and would not have criticised from the “outside”.

Former intelligence minister and SACP leader Ronnie Kasrils has been in the firing line for his criticism of the ANC after he said he found it difficult to urge people to vote for the party today.

Mr Kasrils agrees more has to be done to uncover all the facts behind Hani’s death. He recalls Hani’s outstanding achievements and unblemished record, in a country plagued by challenges such as maladministration, cronyism and corruption. Quoting a biography of Hani, he says Hani believed that if the ANC did not deliver, the people should not hesitate “to march against them”.

There are many lessons to draw from Hani’s teachings. “I mean, none of us would have believed and imagined we would see police shoot people during protests … Marikana, Andries Tatane and the list goes on … so this is something we need to consider if we learn lessons from what Chris had to say.”

Young Communist League secretary Buti Manamela says Hani believed socialism was about “simple things” such as education, health, shelter and food security. He told Hani’s memorial service on Thursday the SACP had ensured these issues remained on the ANC’s agenda.

Source: Natasha Marrian, Business Day

Media invited to Free Clive Derby-Lewis protest on 12 April

freecliveThe organisers of the Free Clive Derby-Lewis protest invite the media to attend their event at 09h00 on Saturday 12 April at Church Square in the centre of Pretoria.

Apart from celebrity activist Steve Hofmeyr, a number of political parties and Afrikaans cultural organisations are going to participate in the protest.

Mr. Derby-Lewis, a former Conservative Party MP and mayor of Edenvale on the East Rand, has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer and is currently hospitalised. He has already been held 21 years as a political prisoner and survived two recent attacks by inmates at the Pretoria Central prison. On several occasions, he has also been denied medical treatment.

Dr. Dan Roodt, spokesman of the Front National, a political party contesting the current elections in South Africa, made the following comment on Derby-Lewis: “Last year I visited him in prison, prior to the attacks that injured him. He is a kind, articulate, elderly gentleman who does not deserve to be in prison! Together with Janus Walusz, he was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the politically motivated killing of Chris Hani, a communist terrorist, in 1993. However, the TRC granted amnesty to almost all other perpetrators who cited even the remotest political motivation for their deeds, including the APLA mass murderers who had attacked a congregation of the St. James Church during a service, killing eleven people and wounding 58 others on 25 July 1993.”

“Clive Derby-Lewis has been a model prisoner and has qualified for parole since 2008,” he continued. “But until now his release has not been authorised for what many suspect are political reasons. Clive is entitled to justice like everyone else, including the crazed leftist killers with their war crimes on innocent civilians in South Africa and who have all been amnestied by the TRC, to a man.”

The political party Front National has been running an online petition urging his immediate liberation on humanitarian grounds on its website. The petition will be handed to the department of correctional services on Saturday.

Presumed racist until proven guilty

manfredBy Manfred Delport.

The core principles in any justice system should be equality before the law and the impartiality of the justice system. As we have repeatedly seen in South Africa since 1994, this ideal of equality and impartiality is an absolute joke in the Mandelatopian justice system. If you are politically connected, you are much more equal than other mere mortals.

The most well-known example of this gross inequality in terms of justice is Schabir Shaik. Having been found guilty of fraud and corruption involving the president, JZ783, Shaik spent only a few months in jail, and most of these in hospital. He was then released on so-called medical parole, only to be photographed while enjoying his “terminal disease” on the golf course. On the other hand, people like Clive Derby-Lewis still languish in jail, years after he should have been released on medical parole, given that Derby-Lewis really actually has cancer. Unlike Derby-Lewis, the merry golfer is simply suffering from the terminal disease called life.

There is however a much more egregious set of double standards that exist in the Mandelatopian “justice” system. These double standards pertain to the grossly unequal treatment of whites and blacks whenever there is any incident of an interracial nature, and the prejudice that whites suffer.

Example 1: Two white students allegedly run over a black pedestrian in Bloemfontein. Predictably, the mainstream media immediately descend into an orgy of rabid, self-righteous rage, and waste no time whatsoever in hysterically labelling this as a so-called racist incident. Within days, the Human Rights Commission (HRC) announces that it too will investigate this incident.

Note the immediate assumption and prejudice, which is repeated time and again whenever blacks and whites are involved in an incident where the alleged wrongdoer is white: Racism is immediately the presumed motive of the white, no matter if there is any proof whatsoever to support this assumption.

Example 2: A black lawyer shoots a white motorcyclist in a road rage incident in Randburg. The lawyer claims the shooting was in self-defence, but this is patently absurd, given that the cowardly Randburg Backshooter shot his victim in the back, as his victim was walking away. Being a so-called lawyer, the Randburg Backshooter should surely realize that no impartial judge would ever accept self-defence as a justification for his crime in these circumstances. However, no news report labels this as a racist incident. The HRC’s silence is deafening, and there is no hint of any HRC investigation.

In contrast to the automatic assumption of a racist motive when whites are involved, there is clearly no automatic assumption of a racist motive on behalf of the Randburg Backshooter, even though he shot his victim in the back and clearly committed murder, and a cowardly murder at that. He is not prejudiced by the automatic assumption of a racist motive on his behalf, but alleged white perpetrators do suffer this prejudice.

I can, of course, quote hundreds if not thousands of cases in which black attackers viciously target whites during brutal farm invasions, hijackings, rapes and tortures, including incidents during home invasions in the suburbs. It is very, very seldom that the mainstream media would call these incidents racist, even though it is difficult to see why the brutal torture and murder of elderly whites by violent black farm attackers can be anything but the most shocking incidents of racist hate crimes.

Why is this? Why are whites involved in interracial incidents prejudiced in the media and the courts by automatically labelled as racists, and even investigated for so-called racism, while the same very seldom happens to blacks involved in crimes or attacks against whites?

It seems to me that whites are being treated unequally by both the justice system and the mainstream media. Any misstep on behalf of a white towards a black is automatically assumed to have racism as an aggravating factor or indeed its motive, whereas the reverse is not true. Because of this automatic assumption, the white perpetrator, if found guilty, would have his sentence aggravated because of the assumption, as well as the hysterical accusations of racism by the loony-left media, whereas black attackers of whites do not suffer the same fate.

The hysterical accusations of racism by the mainstream media, as well as the involvement of organizations such as the HRC, make a mockery of any fairness and impartiality towards alleged white perpetrators. Whites are subject to double jeopardy in the Mandelatopian justice system, because of the immediate additional of charges of racism in any incident involving somebody from another racial group.

Selebi out shopping in Pretoria in chauffered BMW

Jackie Selebi during one of his court appearances
Jackie Selebi during one of his court appearances

Former police chief and convicted criminal Jackie Selebi, who was released on medical parole in 2012 in a reportedly critically ill state, was photographed shopping in Pretoria, Beeld reported on Monday.

He was chauffeured in his luxury BMW 6-series to a shopping centre in Monument Park to buy the Sunday papers.

Selebi spoke to a few shoppers before he bought his newspaper.

He walked without any assistance, and, according to Beeld, seemed to be in good health.

When reporters phoned him a few hours later to enquire about his health, he said he felt a little better and he hoped his condition would improve further.

Selebi said his illness kept him at home and prevented him from driving.

The medical parole board on July 20 2012 decided that Selebi could be released because he was suffering from irreversible kidney failure, high blood pressure and diabetes.

His sudden decline into ill health surprised independent doctors, who said that kidney failure was normally a disease with slow progression.

At the time of his release on medical parole, Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele said Selebi was being sent home because his department had limited capacity to provide care for terminally ill patients.

Selebi was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on August 3, 2010 for taking bribes from convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti.

He collapsed at his house in December 2011 after his final appeal failed.

Selebi’s comfortable release from prison contrasts sharply with the case of white prisoner and former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis who has done 20 years of his sentence already. Although Derby-Lewis has been officially recommended for both medical and ordinary parole, the minister of correctional services refuses to release him. – Sapa/praag

Finally the blinkers are coming off in South Africa

Dear PRAAG supporter overseas,

Hillary Clinton has just visited South Africa. Her message was: Just follow Nelson Mandela. If that were even possible, for the 94-year old is reputed to be hardly functional anymore and living in a remote rural hamlet called Qunu in the old tribal homeland of the Transkei. It also happens to be the most backward and corrupt part of South Africa, so one hopes Hillary did not mean we should start acting like Mandela’s Xhosa people.

Just today, we published an amazing article by Claudia Meades on our website in which she gives Three reasons South Africa will fail. The gist of her article is that South African whites who have created by far the most successful economy on the African continent, pay most of the taxes but have no say in government. The black ruling class has arrogated unto itself a life of conspicuous consumption and jet-set splendour that is simply unsustainable. Seventy percent of municipal managers have been officially declared unfit to do their jobs, for lack of qualifications, yet they continue in their posts!

She draws on a lot of material from my friend Ilana Mercer’s book, Into the Cannibal’s Pot – Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. That is a fine exposé of current conditions in South Africa, with a lot of well-researched historical material as well. I can freely recommend it.

We have such a strong national and international movement going now that I am getting optimistic that the current South African system of black domination will not last another five years. If you read the article by Claudia Meades too, you will notice the impatient tone and exasperation, which is how most SA whites feel at the moment. I am also heartened by the fact that many of the English-speaking whites are rallying to our cause now. For years, starting in the late 1990’s, we Afrikaners have been publishing and speaking out against this insupportable regime, yet it was easily dismissed as a stereotypical “right-wing Afrikaner” response. Increasingly, however, all whites feel the same and will surely come together to address the challenge we face, to restore our rights and some sanity to this country.

I am proud to say that about a week ago we spread the story about the vicious massacre of the Viana family in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg, via Twitter and Facebook. It gained such momentum that within a day it had spilled over to the two biggest news sites in the world, Mailonline.com and Huffingtonpost.com, with a combined readership of 140 million users. No doubt many of you, our overseas supporters, participated in this campaign and I want to thank you all. Very soon the ghastly conditions of violence and unjust anti-white laws in South Africa will stand globally exposed, with change or even regime change becoming an option here.

As you will also read on praag.org, the bizarre Boeremag trial is nearing its end and so far 10 members of that group have been found guilty of high treason. They will face life-long prison sentences soon. An interesting article about the Boeremag was published on the website of the Russian State Radio, by Avigdor Eskin:  Boeremag defendants, leftovers of apartheid or freedom fighters? I urge you to read and disseminate it too, as the more popular it becomes the greater the chances that the Russian state media will publish more information about South Africa and Afrikaners. Our story needs to be told in every country in the world, especially in those countries or parts of countries where political correctness is not yet the norm.

Please also sign the petition on the front page of praag.org for the release of Clive-Derby Lewis who has already spent 18 years in jail for participating in the assassination of Chris Hani, the Communist Party leader, in 1973. He is an ex-Member of Parliament, a decent and patriotic man of English descent but who had embraced the Afrikaner cause, together with his Australian wife, Gaye, a long time ago. They both speak excellent Afrikaans, tinged with a slight English accent. He is now 76 years old and suffering from prostate cancer. I visited him in Pretoria Central Prison a few months ago and, despite his difficulties, he was in good spirits. He is much respected by the prison authorities and his fellow inmates, including the black ones who have elected him to all sorts of committees within the prison. A man like him does not deserve to spend his last months or years in captivity.

I firmly believe that our struggle will do a lot to free the whole world of the disastrous policies imposed in the West from the 1950’s onwards and which have so heavily impacted people of European descent, their identity, sense of justice and self-worth. South Africa is but a microcosm of the planet.

Until next time, with kind regards,

Dan Roodt

Clive Derby-Lewis to apply for medical parole

Former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis will apply for medical parole because he is ill, his wife Gaye Derby-Lewis told Eyewitness News on Monday.

She planned to file the papers in the next few weeks and hoped the attempt would succeed as her husband was suffering from cancer and from gangrene in one leg.

This was the first time Derby-Lewis would apply for medical parole. He was denied normal parole last year.

The leader of the apartheid-era Conservative Party, and an MP, Derby-Lewis was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his part in the murder of SA Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani in 1993.

He arranged a firearm for triggerman Janusz Walus, who is serving the same prison term.

Both were initially sentenced to death. This was commuted to life in prison after the abolition of the death penalty.

Derby-Lewis is 76-years-old. – Sapa

Sign the petition for his release here.