Eugene De Kock given parole [Updated]

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De Kock deal speculation mounts despite government denials
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Mon 11 January 2010
Category: General
Issue No: 2475


The Presidency has denied considering any applications for presidential pardons despite publication of the details of an alleged deal with former Vlakplaas operative Eugene de Kock in yesterday's Rapport.

'The ongoing media speculation and reports that President Jacob Zuma has considered or is about to grant pardons to anyone are incorrect and misleading,' the Presidency said, according to a report on the IoL site. However, Rapport reported yesterday that De Kock was to help the government to fight right-wing extremists and provide information for the prosecution of apartheid politicians in return for his freedom. It says De Kock has allegedly helped the state to hunt extremists in the past and has now offered to assist in prosecuting his former apartheid allies. The newspaper claims De Kock's release may coincide with pardons for several IFP members as well as fraudster Schabir Shaik. It adds that De Kock's release, which it is claimed would be packaged as a token of reconciliation for Afrikaners, is also seen as providing a lightning conductor to shift attention from the controversial Shaik issue. Afrikaans confidantes of Zuma are said to be advising him that De Kock's release will win the favour of the Afrikaners and reduce opposition to a pardon for Shaik.
Full report on the IoL site


The suggestion that De Kock's release may be seen as a 'token of reconciliation' for Afrikaners is described as an insult in a rare front page editorial in Rapport. Editor Liza Albrecht writes that all 'decent Afrikaners' distance themselves from De Kock's crimes, for which he is serving 212 years. If Zuma wants to free De Kock for tactical reasons or to score political points ... 'it will be for his own moral account', she writes. 'This will be a token of objectionable political opportunism rather than reconciliation.'
Full report and editorial in Rapport


De Kock's former Vlakplaas colleagues have mixed feelings about the latest developments, notes Rapport. Willie Nortjé, a star state witness against De Kock who now works for the government's intelligence services, said there was 'nothing to be worried about', but another colleague, Chappies Klopper, is said to be upset about the developments. However, he declined to comment as he now works for the secret service. Former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee is quoted as saying 'if the government wants to pardon De Kock, they should do so'. He said De Kock was sitting in jail because he was 'stupid, impudent and arrogant'. 'If one guy gets (a pardon), everyone must get it: that guy Shaik, the IFP guys who keep on moaning, the AWB guys, the right, the left, Clive Derby-Lewis, Janusz Walus, Ferdi Barnard... It is simply a chapter of the past.'
Full report in Rapport


Zuma was cagey when questioned about Shaik on e.tv last night. According to a report in The Mercury, Zuma told e.tv that Shaik has not applied for a pardon. 'I had nothing in front of me. If there was an application before me, you should ask the question. Why should I respond if I do not have the application before me,' he said. Zuma also said he did not know if Shaik was still ill, as he had not visited Shaik since his release on medical parole in March last year.
Full report in The Mercury (subscription needed)
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20100111072338236
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I'm just wondering how many necklace murders are still in prison. Or did they all get off the hook, since their deeds were "political"?
 
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Lest we forget the architects and maintainance people of the aparthied system that couldnt even ask for forgiveness . Talk about social injustice . As far as I am concerned Cock was a brave man for going in prison whilst the real gevaars got Nobel prizes and such .
 
monsoonjim said:
Lest we forget the architects and maintainance people of the aparthied system that couldnt even ask for forgiveness . Talk about social injustice . As far as I am concerned Cock was a brave man for going in prison whilst the real gevaars got Nobel prizes and such .
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It's an irony that most of those slinging mud in the direction of de Kock and his colleagues could only sleep safely, because of people like de Kock.
 
Why was de Kock not granted amnesty by the TRC? Didn't he confess all?
 
Since the government isn't denying it, it must be true!

As has been said, us white people want him released least of all. The's a psychopath and it's safer for everyone if he stays behind bars!
 
I don't know much about De Kock, maybe I'm too lazy to do some research. Did the government that he(De Kock) served under approve or disapprove of his crimes? Why aren't the big guys who had the power to stop him not behind bars? Why does it always have to be the little guy?
 
news24 said:
I don't know much about De Kock, maybe I'm too lazy to do some research. Did the government that he(De Kock) served under approve or disapprove of his crimes? Why aren't the big guys who had the power to stop him not behind bars? Why does it always have to be the little guy?
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You could ask the same question of the current regime.

Why has AIDS shower boy Zuma not had his day in court related to the charges that Shaddy Shaik faced ?
 
Frankie said:
You could ask the same question of the current regime.

Why has AIDS shower boy Zuma not had his day in court related to the charges that Shaddy Shaik faced ?
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I might have derailed the topic there. Like I said, I'm too ignorant to investigate why he is behind bars. I reserve my opinion about setting him free, I don't care whether he stays behind bars or not.

About Zuma, he has been news maker of the year for more than 3 years(I think). So you shouldn't really be asking that question, unless your far more ignorant than me.
 
AIDS shower boy Zooma beacon of morality

news24 said:
I might have derailed the topic there. Like I said, I'm too ignorant to investigate why he is behind bars. I reserve my opinion about setting him free, I don't care whether he stays behind bars or not.

About Zuma, he has been news maker of the year for more than 3 years(I think). So you shouldn't really be asking that question, unless your far more ignorant than me.
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Not sure why you suggest that we should not expect him to have his day in court just because he's been news maker for three years.

The "News maker of the year" has nothing to do with morality !
 
news24 said:
About Zuma, he has been news maker of the year for more than 3 years(I think). So you shouldn't really be asking that question, unless your far more ignorant than me.
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That is the most daft thing I have ever heard, so just because he is a celebrity, he should not answer to criminal charges that any rational person knows he is guilty of?
My god I really hope you are a card carrying member of the ANC, it would make more sense.
 
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