Fonds ter ondersteuning van Clive Derby-Lewis

'n Clive Derby-Lewis ondersteunersfonds is gestig wat ten doel het om Clive finansieel te ondersteun.

Bydraes tot hierdie fonds is welkom en kan gemaak word deur inbetalings in die volgende rekening nr:

Naam: Oranjekas
Bank: Standard
Rekening nr: 271240490
Tak kode: 010545
Verw: 0134387464               (NB Baie belangrik!)

Letter tot Helen Zille of the DA

Dear Madam,
It has come to our attention that the DA is apposed to the parole of Clive Derby-Lewis. It is now two years since Clive qualified for parole and as a matter of fact was granted parole in Oktober 2008, but as a result of politcal medeling is still behind bars.
Please explain to us why the DA believe the rules do not apply to Clive Derby-Lewis.
Does the DA not believe that we are all equal before the law? From your statement it would appear that the DA holds a kind of "Animal farm" view of equality: "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others".
Regards,
Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee

Clive Derby-Lewis, slagoffer van Kommunisme

Clive Derby-Lewis is ’n blanke slagoffer van die stryd van terrorisme wat Rusland, China en in ’n minder mate, Kuba, in die laaste drie dekades van die vorige eeu met behulp van Zionistiese finansierders in Suider-Afrika ontketen het. Wat hy gedoen het wil ’n mens nie noodwendig goedpraat nie, maar as Nelson Mandela ondanks die bloed aan sy hande as ’n held uit daardie bloedige periode kon getree het, kan Derby-Lewis ook.

Hy het inderwaarheid die slagoffer geword van ’n onverklaarde oorlog waarin die blanke se politieke vyand feitlik elke reël van die Geneefse Konvensie verbreek het, soos wat genl-maj. Herman Stadler dit in sy trefferboek “The Other Side of the Coin” uitgebeeld het.

Die verhaal van die man se siekte, wat die afgelope aantal dae in die media ontvou het, vertel die verhaal van ’n man wat aan die verkeerde kant van die politiek van die dag, in ’n tronk beland het wat ná sewentien jaar vir hom ’n heltronk geword het. G’n wonder sy politieke vyande het ná ’n vorige mislukte paroolaansoek van Derby-Lewis gesê: “Let the man rot in jail!”

Die feit dat hy in ’n bedenklike toestand in die hospitaal opgeneem is nadat sy familie en regsverteenwoordiger moes ingryp, spreek boekdele oor die  onmenslikheid van die ANC se tronkowerheid.

Dit herinner ’n mens aan die onmenslikheid wat in die ANC se “struggle” kop uitgesteek het, en waarin Nelson Mandela ook ’n beduidende rol gespeel het. Hierdie onmenslikheid het weer eens kop uitgesteek toe Derby-Lewis enkele dae gelede ’n noodoperasie moes ondergaan as gevolg van die gangreen

wat hy opgedoen het nadat hy in die tronk oor ’n bed geval het. Twee tronkamptenare het in die operasieteater rondgestaan en die mediese personeel in die wiele gery. Nadat sy regsverteenwoordiger daaroor beswaar gemaak het, het hulle die operasieprosedure deur ’n venster dopgehou. Sy prokureur het dié optrede as onnodig bestempel. 

“Clive is 74 en hy sal nie vlug nie. Die hofbevel ingevolge waarvan hy in die hospitaal opgeneem is, het gelui dat hy onverhinderde behandeling moet ontvang. ’n Groeisel aan sy voorkop het ook gedui op moontlike velkanker.

Met ons ter perse gaan was dit nie duidelik hoe Derby-Lewis op die behandeling gereageer het nie.

- Ray Wagner

SAPA took notice

Clive Derby Lewis seriously ill

JOHANNESBURG (Sapa) - Medical staff caring for Clive Derby-Lewis were still monitoring his gangrenous leg to prevent an amputation, his lawyer said on Monday.
"The right leg was inflamed and still swollen. It is red right up to his hip and it's obvious that he still has some inflammation in the leg," said Marius Coertze of the man serving a 25-year sentence for his part in the murder of SA Communist Party secretary general Chris Hani.
The 74-year-old Derby-Lewis had to undergo two operations after a bump against an iron bed base caused a severe infection in his leg.
While being examined, doctors also found that Derby-Lewis, who has served 17 years, needed treatment for skin cancer and to his prostate.
Coertze said that a second course of antibiotics, "which his doctor said was so strong that it would kill the bugs around the bed too", did not have the result hoped for.
His blood pressure was also high.
According to the department of correctional services, a final decision on whether Derby-Lewis gets parole should be taken by the National Council on Correctional Services at the end of October.
Coertze said the doctor's primary concern was to save his leg, and as soon as his leg was out of danger, they would focus on treatment for the skin cancer and the prostate.
Derby-Lewis had initially been shackled to his hospital bed in a private facility, but the department intervened and had the shackles taken off to help improve his circulation.
Hani was shot dead on April 10, 1993, a year before the first democratic elections in South Africa.
Hani was shot in the head as he climbed out of his car outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg, by Polish immigrant Janusz Walus, using a pistol lent to him by Derby-Lewis, a Conservative Party MP at the time.
They were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and were sentenced to death.
However, this was commuted to life imprisonment in 1995, when capital punishment was abolished.
Their application for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was rejected on grounds that could not prove it was political and had not made a full disclosure.
An email signed "The Free Derby-Lewis committee" said that if Derby-Lewis was not a political prisoner before, he was now because of what they believe was political meddling in whether he gets parole.
The Free Derby-Lewis committee plan to launch a campaign to get him freed starting with a street braai in Potgieter street in Pretoria on Monday, and then on Wednesday they will send a letter to President Jacob Zuma to have him freed.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions, the Democratic Alliance and the SACP Party are among those opposed to his parole.
Walus was also still serving his 25-year term.

http://politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71627?oid=202396&sn=Detail&pid=71616

Dit is nou genoeg

Die minister van korrektiewe dienste, die nasionale paroolraad, die SAKP en sy napraters, asook die Demokratiese Alliansie wat almal al in die verlede verskillende vlakke van wraaksugtigheid teenoor mnr Clive Derby-Lewis getoon het, moet maar kennis neem van die groeiende gevoel van teenstand onder Afrikaners.

Mnr Clive Derby-Lewis se mense wil hom by die huis hê. Selfs mense wat tevore huiwerig was om hulle steun toe te sê aan iemand wat bereid was om ‘n pad van geweld te loop, word nou deel van die stroom wat sê: dit is nou genoeg. Laat hom vry!

Die feit dat Radio Pretoria in ‘n program van net 45 minute, 73 boodskappe van ondersteuning deur inbellers kon uitsaai, sê nogal iets. ‘n Mens sal nooit weet hoeveel mense nie kon deurkom nie en hoeveel nog sou skakel as die tyd langer was nie, maar dit is genoeg om die algemene gevoel te bepaal.

Dit word ondersteun deur die suksesvolle straatbraai oorkant die tronk wat binne ‘n kwessie van ‘n paar uur gereël is.

Die vrylating van mnr Derby-Lewis is uiteindelik besig om ‘n volksaak te raak. En die volk se boodskap aan die besluitnemers wat glo teen die einde van die maand oor sy parool-aansoek gaan besin, is duidelik: laat hom vry! Hou op om die regsproses te verdraai om ‘n man van 74 wat in werklikheid nie eers fisies betrokke was by enige daad van geweld nie, agter tralies te hou. Hou op met julle belaglike wreedaardigheid om iemand wat ‘n kans staan om sy been te verloor aan sy hospitaalbed vas te ketting. Hou op om politieke speletjies te speel met ‘n man se lewe.

Selfs mnr Chris Hani se dogter het al in die openbaar gesê, dit is genoeg. Niks wat verder aan Clive Derby-Lewis of Janus Walusz gedoen word, gaan haar pa terugbring nie.

Die feit dat haar ma en ander lede van die SAKP en die ekstremistiese Jeugliga daarop aandring dat hulle nie vrygelaat word nie, het waarskynlik veel meer met hulle eie politieke aspirasies as enige iets anders te doen.

Dit is miskien tyd dat hulle ook die gevoel van die bevolking begin lees. Mnr Derby-Lewis se swart mede-gevangenes ondersteun hom deur die bank. Die algemene publiek is baie meer bekommerd oor dienslewering en werk en misdaad, as oor ‘n politieke gevangene.

Net so moet die Demokratiese Alliansie ook maar begin besef dat sy haatdraende houding oor mnr Clive Derby-Lewis hom nog verder van die Afrikaner gaan vervreem. Of is daar nou genoeg swartes wat vir die DA stem, dat die Afrikaner se stem nie meer tel nie?

Selfs koerante uit die Naspers-stal het al in hoofartikels en nuusberigte die saak simpatiek benader. Dit is waarskynlik ook ‘n goeie aanduiding van die openbare mening.

In die dae wat kom gaan die Bevry Derby-Lewis Komitee nog verskeie aksies hê rondom die eis vir vrylating. As daar ooit ‘n tyd was om aan openbare optrede deel te neem, dan is dit nou. Want genoeg is genoeg.

http://www.radiopretoria.co.za/Nuuskommentaar.php

Nuus van die komitee

Die bevry Clive Derby-Lewis Komitee, het op die 1ste Oktober 2010 'n uitgebreide veldtog geloods om steun te werf vir die bevryding van Mnr. Clive Derby-Lewis.

'n Suksesvolle betoging is reeds gehou op Maandagaand die 4de Oktober 2010 voor die gevangenis in Pretoria in die vorm van 'n Protesbraai. 'n Vyftagtal volksgenote het aan hierdie protes deelgeneem. Die tronk owerhede het duidelik kennis geneem van hierdie protes aangesien die tronk die polisie ontbied het. Die polisie moes egter die organiseerders gelyk gee dat daar niks onordelik aan die byeenkoms was nie en het gevolglik die protesteerders met rus gelaat om voort te gaan.

Die inbelprogram op Radio Pretoria, waar luisteraars die geleentheid gegun word om groeteboodskappe aan Clive te stuur, is 'n belangrikke faset van die veldtog, aangesien dit aan Clive toon dat daar wel steun is vir sy vrylating.

Dit het ook bekend geword dat dit Clive 'n paar honderd Rand per maand kos vir basiese lewensmiddelde soos toiletpapier, tandepaste ens in die gevangenis. Daarmee saam beloop Clive se regskostes ook reeds etlike duisende Rande. Gevolglik het die Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis komitee besluit om die Clive Derby-Lewis ondersteuningsfonds te skep. Ondersteuners word aangemoedig om bydraes tot hierdie fonds te maak, om so ook die finansiele las van Clive te help verlig.

Die Bevry Clive Derby-lewis veldtog het heelwat steun ontvang van organisasies, o.a Radio Pretoria, Die Verkenners en die Afrikanerfront.

Die veldtog sal op die 7de Oktober 2010 'n hoogtepunt bereik, met 'n eis wat aan Jacob Zuma oorhandig sal word vir die vrylating van Clive Derby-lewis. 'n Afskrif van hierdie eis sal ook aan al die ambesades in Suid-Afrika gestuur word.

Ben Geldenhuys

Woordvoerder

Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis Komitee

WE DEMAND THAT FOR CLIVE - NOW!!!

Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee

P.O. Box 690

Rayton

1001

Fax: 086 577 3041

7 October 2010

The President of the Republic of South-Africa

Mr. Jacob Zuma

Fax: 012 323 3231

cc. Embassies of other nations to South-Africa

cc. The media

Dear President Zuma,

“SOUTH AFRICA” - OR: WHERE SOME ARE “MORE EQUAL” THAN OTHERS: THE CASE OF CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS

1.       In May 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first President of “ a new South Africa” which would supposedly be “non-racial”, “non-sexist” and free of any discrimination of any kind whatsoever. Few, if any, new governments took office in such a spirit of international euphoria.

2.       The very first section of it’s Constitution states that South Africa is “a democracy founded on…human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms…”

3.       Sixteen years down the line under ANC-rule, South Africa is a country plagued by murder; rape; corruption; incompetent administration; unemployment; poverty; disease and a host of other evils. An objective observer cannot but label the hypocritic utterances in the Constitution as tragic jokes.

4.       The very different destinies of two South African men making news-headlines is a case in point.

5.       On the one hand there is Shabir Shaik; during Apartheid an engineering-student (so much for the despised system of “Bantu education”) and, in later years, the businessman closely involved with the ANC. In 2005, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on counts of fraud and corruption for his role in the multi-billion Rand deal to procure arms for poverty-stricken South Africa. After a mere two years of incarceration, the public learned that Shaik is free again; being released as a “terminally ill” man. Shortly afterwards, this same “terminally ill” man was photographed with his luxurious BMW doing shopping; playing golf; and indulging in other niceties of life. The applicable denial, followed by “settling of the dust and forever-after-hold-your-peace”, was the only result.

6.       On the other hand we have Clive Derby-Lewis, during Apartheid a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party and jailed since 1993 as an accomplice in the murder of Chris Hani (the erstwhile Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party). During his 17 years in prison (and counting), Derby-Lewis has seen countless criminals who were convicted of the most serious crimes - including murder - walk out of prison as free men; either released during the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”-proceedings; released by Presidential Pardon; or released on parole.

7.       Each and every one of these countless freed men seems to be “more equal” than Prisoner Derby-Lewis who, sick and impoverished at the age of 74, must rely on an attorney who would work free of charge; bringing urgent High Court-applications just to get Derby-Lewis in hospital for life-saving operations.

8.       Derby-Lewis’s own application for release at the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” failed during the 90’s, on the pretext that he “did not act with a political motive nor made a full disclosure”. The hypocricy and malicious intent of this so-called “Truth- and Reconciliation Commission” could not be demonstrated more clearly than by it’s absurd ruling that Derby-Lewis did not have a “political motive” for his involvement in the Hani-matter.

9.       What else could the motive be? A personal feud? Definitely not, as the two - one a black Communist and the other a white Conservative - did not even know each other on a personal level.

10.    What else? Material gain? Negative again - not even a needle was stolen from the murder-scene.

11.    Fact of the matter is that both these men were professional politicians in a state closely resembling civil war; and without Hani’s political profile, Derby-Lewis would not even have been aware of his existence. Only seriously malicious minds could have come to the “non-political motive” conclusion.

12.    As for the so-called “lack of a full disclosure”, the only “revelation” this has led to is the recent (somewhat embarrassing) explanation for the absence of Hani’s guards on the day of his murder: Hani himself wanted them out of the way in order to be private with his mistress. With all fairness and respect - what could be so important for Derby-Lewis to be kept hidden, that he would rot away in prison during the twilight years of his life rather than making a “disclosure”? It is just as RIDICULOUS an assumption, as the “non-political motive” allegation.

13.    In 2003, Derby-Lewis applied for Presidential Pardon. HE WAS NOT EVEN GRANTED THE COURTESY OF AN ANSWER in this “democracy founded on human dignity, equality and human rights and freedoms”.

14.    In terms of Sections 73 and 78 of the Correctional Services Act, No. 111 of 1998, a person sentenced to life imprisonment may be placed on parole on reaching the age of 65 years if he has served 15 years of such sentence. During 2008, Derby-Lewis qualified and duly applied; and even though his parole was recommended by the Parole Board, he was turned down yet again during the final stages of the parole-process in this “democracy founded on human dignity, equality and human rights and freedoms”.

15.    Currently, Clive Derby-Lewis suffers from gangrene which was neglected by prison-officials to such an extent that he may lose his leg.

16.    Derby-Lewis also suffers from critically high blood-pressure. Furthermore, the sores on his face were medically examined and found to be aggressively cancerous; so deep that it bleeds spontaneously after having been neglected for years.

17.    WE, THE PEOPLE whom Clive Derby-Lewis served during his whole life and for whom he sacrificed everything – WE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT TURN OUR HEADS AWAY WHILE HE IS BEING TRAMPLED UPON in this so-called “democracy founded on human dignity, equality and human rights and freedoms”. If Clive Derby-Lewis should die in prison, his martyrdom shall stand with thousands of other martyrdoms as a symbol of our oppression, and it shall reverberate through decades to come.                      

18.    In terms of Section 82 of the Correctional Services Act, the President of South Africa may at any time authorise the placement on…parole of any sentenced prisoner and he also may remit any part of a prisoner’s sentence.

                                     WE DEMAND THAT FOR CLIVE - NOW!!!

- Freedom for Clive Derby-Lewis Committee (FCC)

Steun vir die bevryding van Clive Derby-Lewis groei!

Op die 7de Oktober 2010 is bostaande foto geneem oorkant die gevangenis in Pretoria. Dit is duidelik dat publieke steun vir die bevryding van Clive Derby-Lewis groei en spontane aksies soos hierdie tot gevolg het.

Straatbraai

Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis

Media Verklaring

4 Oktober 2010

Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis

Op die 15de Oktober 2010 is dit reeds twee jaar sedert die paroolraad Clive Derby-Lewis goedgekeur het vir parool, maar steeds is hy in gevangenis.  Die gevolg van sy onregverdige gevangenisskap oor die afgelope twee jaar is dat die 74 jarige Clive Derby-Lewis nou in ‘n privaat hospitaal, vasgeketting aan ‘n hospitaalbed, vir sy lewe moet veg.  Dit volg nadat hy beseer is in die tronk en die wond medies so verwaarloos is, dat gangreen in sy been ontstaan het.  Weens die feit dat mediese sorg aan hom geweier is, is daar ‘n dringende hofaansoek gebring, sodat Clive privaat mediese sorg kan ontvang.  Tydens die ondersoek het dit aan die lig gekom dat Clive se gesondheid oor die afgelope twee jaar ernstig agteruit gegaan het en ly hy onder andere aan hoë bloeddruk, velkanker, prostaatprobleme en het hy ook gangereen onder lede.

Indien Clive nie voorheen ‘n politieke gevangene was nie, is hy dit beslis nou, aangesien dit juis weens politieke inmenging is dat sy parool wat toegestaan is deur die paroolraad in 2008, steeds nie aan hom gegee is nie.  Dit is ook weens politieke inmenging dat hy nie amnestie ontvang het tydens die sogenaamde waarheid en versoeningskommissie proses van 1995 nie.

Die ANC se vennoot, die kommunistiese party (SACP) het in Junie 2010 verklaar dat Clive Derby-Lewis moet vrot in die tronk.  Dit laat die indruk dat die weiering van mediese sorg aan Clive en die gevolglike gangreen van sy wonde, ‘n manier is om te verseker dat daar uitvoering gegee word aan die regerende alliansie se sadistiese opdrag.

Hierdie skreiende onreg wat gepleeg word, mag nie ongesiens of onbeantwoord verby gaan nie. Daarom het die Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis komitee besluit om ‘n uitgebreide veldtog te loods om hierdie onreg aan te spreek.  Van die aksies wat geneem sal word, sluit o.a. in:

1.         Op Maandag 4 Oktober 2010 om 19h00, sal daar ‘n straatbraai gehou word voor die gevangenis in Potgieterstraat in Pretoria, om steun te wys vir die vrylating van Clive  Derby-Lewis.
2.                  Op Dinsdag 5 Oktober 2010, sal organisasies genooi word om hul steun te gee vir die bevrydingseis van Clive Derby-Lewis.
3.                  Op Woensdag 6 Oktober 2010, sal ‘n eis gestuur word aan Jacob Zuma, om Clive Derby-Lewis vry te laat. ‘n Afskrif van hierdie eis sal ook gestuur word aan al die ambassades in Suid-Afrika.  

Verskeie ander aksies sal ook geloods word en organisasies word ook genooi om hulle eie aksies te loods in hierdie verband. Inligting sal geplaas word op hierdie webskakel: http://clivederbylewis.blogspot.com/       

Die uwe,

Ben Geldenhuys

Namens:  Bevry Clive Derby-Lewis Komitee

Twee geleenthede om steun te wys teen die onreg wat teen Clive gepleeg word.

Daar is binnekort twee geleenthede waar steun teen die onreg wat tans gepleeg word teen Clive Derby-Lewis gewys kan word.

Die eerste geleentheid is op Maandag 4 Oktober om 19h00, waartydens 'n Clive Derby-Lewis ondersteuningsbraai gehou sal word in Potgieterstraat voor die gevangenis in Pretoria. Hierdie sal die derde straatbraai wees wat gehou sal word ter ondersteuning van Clive Derby-Lewis op dieselfde plek.

Die tweede geleentheid is 'n inbelprogram op Radio Pretoria waarna Clive sal luister en waar persone die geleentheid sal ontvang om groete boodskappe aan Clive te lewer.

Clive Derby-Lewis word in die tronk mishandel

Clive Derby-Lewis word in die tronk mishandel Maandag, 27 September 2010  Praag
Clive Derby-Lewis kan nog steeds nie uit die hospitaal ontslaan word nie, ongeag die verbete stryd deur ses dokters om sy gesondheid te verbeter.

Volgens sy prokureur, mnr. Marius Coertze, is Derby-Lewis op Maandag 20 September in die hospitaal opgeneem as gevolg van ‘n akute toestand van gangreen in sy regteronderbeen.

Hy is Dinsdag 21 September daarvoor geopereer en dooie weefsel van 8cm x 6cm (omtrent se groot soos ‘n man se vuis) is uit sy been verwyder. Hy is daarna met binne-aarse antibiotika behandel om die gangreen te probeer stop. Die wond is oopgelaat om te dreineer en die wonddekkings word gereeld gewissel in ‘n poging om die wond steriel te hou.

Die been is tans nog geswel en die kursus antibiotika is voltooi. Die swelling dui daarop dat die stryd teen die gangreen nog nie gewen is nie. Mnr Derby-Lewis is op ‘n tweede en sterker kursus antibiotika geplaas om die gangreen te keer.

Hy is egter in ‘n erge verwaarloosde en mishandelde toestand uit die gevangenis opgeneem en dit is nog nie seker of sy been gered kan word nie. As die gangreen nie vinnig verbeter nie, sal sy regteronderbeen afgesit moet word om verspreiding van die gangreen na die res van sy liggaam te voorkom.

Hoë bloeddruk
In die kliniese ondersoek van mnr Clive Derby-Lewis by sy eerste opname in die hospitaal, het dit geblyk dat sy bloeddruk lewensgevaarlik hoog is (172/140). Die medici het begin om medikasie te verskaf om sy bloeddruk onder beheer te bring. Volgens Coertze, is "sy bloeddruk tans onder beheer, maar sal heel waarskynlik weer onstabiel raak, sodra hy terugkeer tronk toe en die goeie mediese behandeling wat hy tans ontvang, ontbeer".

Kanker
By opname het die dokters ‘n verspreide velkanker aan Clive se regtervoorkop bemerk. Die kanker strek van die haarlyn by sy regterslaap tot by die oogbank en dek ongeveer ‘n area van 5cm X 5cm. Volgens die sjirurg, dokter Durand, se medeling aan Clive, neem velkanker ‘n geruime tyd om so groot te word en dui dit daarop dat dit reeds oor ‘n lang periode (twee jaar of langer) presenteer het. Die kanker is so diep dat dit spontaan bloei. Biopsies van die velkanker het bevestig dat dit wel aggressiewe velkanker is wat dringend behandel moet word.

Verdere bloedtoetse wat op mnr Derby-Lewis gedoen is, dui daarop dat hy waarskynlik ook prostaatkanker kan hê. ‘n Uroloog se dienste gaan betrek word om hierdie diagnose te bevestig.

Behandeling
Dr. Durand het Clive meegedeel dat sy toestand die gevolg is van growwe nalatigheid en mishandeling van Clive. Hy is van mening dat enige mediese praktisyn sonder moeite die diagnose van verskeie siekte-toestande waaraan Clive ly, kon maak.

Marius Coertze, Clive se prokureur, sê dat "Korrektiewe Dienste duidelik bewus was van sy kroniese en akute mediese toestand, maar dit waarskynlik verwyg en verwaarloos het, in die hoop dat Clive aan sogenaamde 'natuurlike oorsake' sal sterf. Korrektiewe Dienste se klandestiene en onmenslike verwaarlosing van Clive sou dan maklik onder die mat ingevee kon word."

Mishandeling
Die departement van Korrektiewe Dienste se skokkende mishandeling van Clive, ‘n 74-jarige bejaarde man, duur steeds voort, selfs binne-in die hospitaal, volgens mnr Marius Coertze. Tydens die operasie van sy been, het Clive se twee bewaarders daarop aangedring om rondom die operasietafel te staan in die teater, terwyl die operasie uitgevoer word. Dit het die werk van die dokters belemmer en was ‘n oorlas.

Eers nadat Marius Coertze, Clive se prokuereur, gedreig het om die bewaarders vir minagting van die hof te laat vervolg, het hulle ingestem om buite die deur van die teater te wag en deur die venster die operasie dop te hou. Die span dokters het erg beswaar gemaak oor hierdie insident in die teater. Dit belemmer die dokters se werk en veroorsaak ‘n risiko van infeksie en die verspreiding van kieme in die teater. As ‘n reël word geen persone wat nie deel van die teaterspan vorm in die teater toegelaat nie.

Die tronkbewaarders het mnr Derby-Lewis aan sy hospitaalbed vasgeketting. Hy kan glad nie opstaan en rondbeweeg nie. Dit is noodsaaklik dat ‘n pasiënt post-operatief voldoende beweging kry om bloedklonte te vermy. Bloedklonte wat nou ontstaan, kan trombose in die been of hart of embolisme in die long veroorsaak. Ten einde hierdie trauma en selfs dood te voorkom, word hy nou behandel met bloedverdunnende middels. Dit is die gevolg van Korrektiewe Dienste se houding om ‘n 74-jarige bejaarde man aan sy hospitaalbed vas te ketting.

Dokters is geskok dat die tronkpersoneel onbeskaamd en openlik, terwyl mnr Derby-Lewis onder mediese behandeling is, poog om sy gesondheid te benadeel deur die dokters te verhinder om hom te behandel en in stryd met die medici se opdragte op te tree. Een bewaarder wou selfs vir dokter Durand verhinder om Clive op die oggend van 24 September te ondersoek omdat hy sê hy ken nie die dokter nie en weet nie of hy in die kamer toegelaat mag word nie.

Volgens Marius Coertze is die nuutste voorval van Korrektiewe Dienste se onmenslike houding teenoor Clive Derby-Lewis dat mev Gaye Deby-Lewis nie toegelaat word om hom te besoek nie. Sy is slegs een besoek aan mnr Deby-Lewis vergun. Sy het hom gister besoek. Sy word gedwing om telkens meer as ‘n uur te wag vir ‘n skriftelike toestemming om hom te besoek. So ‘n skriftelike toestemming is slegs vir een besoek van 45 minute geldig. Dan moet sy die volgende dag weer na die tronk toe gaan vir ‘n nuwe toestemming. Die Pretoria-Sentraalgevangenis se administrasie is gesluit vir die lang naweek, met die gevolg dat niemand hom gedurende die naweek sou kon besoek nie.

Die tronk het ook aan hom vorms verskaf om te teken. Hy sê dit kom daarop neer dat hy persoonlik vir die bewaarders wat hom oppas se vergoeding moet betaal. Mnr Coertze kon hom nie adviseer oor die regsimplikasies van die vorm nie, aangesien hy toegang tot mnr Derby-Lewis geweier word.

CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS

CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS is a fifth generation South African who was born in Cape Town in 1936. He spent nineteen years in voluntary service in the South African Army’s Citizen Force, attaining the rank of Commandant. At the age of 32, he became commanding officer of the Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment, the youngest CO in the regiment’s history. He still retains that record. He took the regiment to the SWA border during the war there where the regiment served with distinction.

After his military career, he entered politics and is one of the few politicians in South Africa to have served in the four arms of the previous government: local government, the Provincial Council, Parliament and the President’s Council.

He was a founder member of the South African Conservative Party in 1982 and served as that party’s official opposition spokesman on Economic Affairs. He established a parliamentary record by putting more than 800 questions to the ruling National Party during his term as a member of Parliament from 1987 to 1989.

He has been active in numerous organizations – many started by himself – to inform the South African public in general about South Africa’s political direction. (His predictions of course became a reality). He served on the boards of two hospitals, a school for children with learning disabilities, and a high school. He was a Zone Commander in SA’s Civil Defence Corps and was involved in many ex-servicemen’s organizations. He was elected Vice President of the London-based Western Goals, an organization devoted to the preservation of Western civilization, and was a member of various anti-communist groups. He attended the World Anti-Communist League Congress in Brussels in 1990.

A committed Christian, Derby-Lewis was involved in many groups opposed to the politicization of South Africa’s churches, their support for liberation theology and their active assistance to revolutionary forces in South Africa. He was born a Catholic and fought against the Catholic Church’s support for these revolutionary forces. He left the Catholic Church some years ago and is a member of Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk. (APK).

In 1993 Clive was given the death sentence for his involvement in the assassination by Janus Walus of Chris Hani, a communist revolutionary who wanted to see South Africa as a “wasteland”. In 1990, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

The law of South Africa says that a life prisoner over the age of 65 may apply for parole, and this he did. In July 2008, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Parole Board recommended he be given parole, to be released on 15 October 2008. DCS did nothing about this and the family was forced to take DCS to court, where the case was lost after a full bench (the first time in history) ruled that his application was faulty.

Again in 2010, the Parole Board recommended Clive’s release on parole, and he is waiting to see what transpires this time. Clive has been in prison for more than seventeen years.

I should have been released one year ago today

I should have been released one year ago today, but certain politicians have succeeded in keeping me locked up in prison unlawfully.

Justice is not available to those in South Africa who are deemed to be “from the wrong political order”. Notwithstanding the price I have paid in prison time for being convicted of killing Chris Hani, I have been “left to rot in jail” by individual ANC politicians and some bureaucrats, who have taken it upon themselves to effectively block my parole by political means.

People from across the entire political spectrum, from far left to far right including scores of black and white prisoners, tell me that “everyone knows” I am being kept in prison regardless of the merits of my parole recommendation and that if I had been anyone else there would have been justice for me.

This parole was recommended by the parole board who recommended that I be released on 15 October 2008. Now, one year later, I am still in prison with little hope of being treated fairly.

Clive Derby-Lewis, 15 October 2009
Prison Number: 93623417
Pretoria Central Prison
Potgieter Street
0001, PRETORIA