Showing posts with label Shadow Minister of Correctional Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadow Minister of Correctional Services. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Eugene de Kock : Part 8

Stone Sizane and me in my bedroom 
In-between the calls I was getting from JK asking how much money we had, I also got a call from him telling me to close the group.  I told him “not a fucking chance, unless I hear it out the mouth of Eugene de Kock myself”.   On the 2 Feb 2015, I received a Statement of Account from Julian Knight and Associates Inc; titled : EUGENE DE KCOK. MINISTER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES & OTHER CASE ( & OTHER CASE was Clive Derby-Lewis) NO:9572/13I.   The account was for an amount of R614 434.69.  However, we had raised R20 000.00 which was given to JK by Miempie and General van der Merwe coughed up R30 000.00 leaving a total amount outstanding at R564 434.69.  JK charged EdK R1500.00 per hour consultation. For example: Consultation at Pretoria Central on signature of Affidavit 11h00 – 12h00 was R1750.00.  This was a complete shock to me because I was led to believe that JK was taking on the case of Eugene and he would do it pro deo (for nothing) because of the high profile nature of the case, he would be promoting his own business due to the media it would attract.   The statement could only have been drawn up after I asked for a copy so that I could discuss the matter with those who were holding the money.   The entire statement seems to me to have been put together for my benefit and to get money out of the group.   There was never any agreement that money would be paid.  The statement is addressed to Eugene de Kock (as though EdK had any money left by that stage).
JK obviously asked his secretary to email the documents to me and unbeknown to anyone, the secretary sent me a document that I should never have seen.   JK was representing Clive Derby-Lewis and Eugene de Kock at the same time and the costs for Derby-Lewis were muddled up with that of EdK in JK’s books.   I do not have to say much on that issue.  You can work it out for yourselves – but how could he have been working for both of them at the same time?  Where were his priorities?  And why were we to foot the bill for Clive Derby-Lewis?
Then I got a letter that I should not have got either:  It was a letter written by Julian Knight to TM dated 2 Feb 2015 (the man who lied that he had been visiting EdK since he was incarcerated).  TM led the media to believe that he was footing the bills and he was doing all the visits from the time EdK went into prison.  This is a blatant lie.  And why was the letter addressed to JK? The letter reads:
Dear Sir
EUGENE DE KOCK/MINISTER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES & OTHER: CASE NO. 58500/14
We refer to the above matter and enclose herewith our amended Statement of Account which reflects R30 000.00 received from client (what fucking client?) as well as the R20 000,00 donation that was received from General Van Der (sic) Merwe.  
These accounts must be factored into the writer’s statement of Account.  We confirm your advices that the amount of money raised on behalf of Mr De Kock will no way near cover the entirety of the Bill.  (No Ja – he knew so much)
It is the writer’s suggestion that once we are in receipt of amount that has been collect, (sic) the writer together with Adv. Du Plessis SC will come to an arrangement relating to how the monies be disbursed.  (Adv. Du Plesiss SC did the work for nothing and never wanted a penny.  It was pro deo)
We look forward to hearing from you in the above regard at your earliest convenience.
Yours faithfully
Julian Knight
The raid and seizure of Eugene were still under the table.  Our tolerance was reaching peak levels and I was being cautioned to calm down.  That was impossible.  I can keep a secret, but I can’t keep quiet about the truth.  Eugene was institutionalized and vulnerable, being used by the various law enforcement officials to help with apartheid crimes and finding evidence and his true friends were being kept out of the way by TM taking charge of who visited him and when.    It concerned me that his true friends were and still are, outside his circle and have no privy to his health and welfare.   I still feel that he should be given a Presidential Pardon but this will have to be applied for when we get a new president.  The one we have now is just an embarrassment.   When the president changes, I will again start an appeal to get EdK a Presidential Pardon.  I am sure that you will all be with me on that issue.

During this time, I managed to get to see Stone Sizane in my bedroom at home.  While he made no promise of a Presidential Pardon, he did promise to do all he could to facilitate a parole for Eugene.  He kept his word.   TM, PP, and JK were rats and there were one or two other spooks in our group.  JK constantly sent emails to TM asking for money until he called me one day and I told him that TM could not organise a piss up in a brewery and if he wanted some clarity regarding the situation, he had best speak to Ben or to me.  PP wanted something from him, TM has his reasons so that his ego could be polished and JK was milking the system without actually giving a damn about his client. 

Monday, September 26, 2016

EUGENE DE KOCK - PART 5


If you have only joined the story now at Part 5, I suggest you go back to Part 1 and read because certain people had certain code names.   Another thing, enough time has gone by that what I share makes no difference at all.  We are still (I hope) a group with integrity and compassion – although there is always a rat in the mix.  I hope that the rats get trapped into cages never to see the light of day. May they experience even one third of the trauma that Eugene de Kock suffered in prison. 
In May2015, it was discussed (between me, Ben and Marx) whether to start slowing down the nagging and letter writing process regarding Eugene de Kock’s parole.  I cannot remember the words verbatim, but it went somewhere along the lines of it being dangerous/political and maybe detrimental to Eugene; and maybe we were making it more difficult for him.   Now I have never met Eugene, except when he phoned me many months later… but that is another story.    It was suggested that I temper down my posts and try to stay calm and smooth the waters.  Well, me being me, I thought that was for the birds and balls to the wall I said “Not a fuck!!!  We carry on until Eugene de Kock tells me with his own mouth to stop”.   From that date to the date when the world heard about his parole – a million and one things happened.  I could write a book on it all that would make Jansen’s book pale in comparison.  It was cloak and dagger – there were spies, double-agents and spooks.  I did not even trust Ben and certainly did not trust Marx – We all had our own informers in various places.  So I would act dumb until I was told something of an extremely sensitive nature and would very calmly say, “I know – I heard it week before last”.  Shit, I loved doing that to the main dudes that counted.
I was not getting better and spending a lot of time in hospital.   Eugene’s story because the reason for me to get up in the morning.  Often, it was my dedication and hate of injustice that pushed me to  the point of exhaustion…straight back into hospital… but would at the same time move me back into the stream of life.  My life has always been to live for something bigger than myself, and Eugene’s situation was indeed bigger than myself.  Not for a moment did I believe that I could have taken that small little group of three to where we went and how we got there.  It is very sad that we were forced to delete everything from our group page because that would have been a fantastic book.  But more on the reason for that will be revealed at a later stage.   I was driven and determined.  I could not let one day go by without doing some research, making one phone call, writing another letter, motivating the group or speaking with the president’s office.   I entertained officials of the ANC in my bedroom – begging and pleading for a pardon or at least a parole.   I knew things long before anyone else, although Ben would get direct info on Eugene; I was getting info from the political sphere.   The story gets more interesting from here – so stay with me while I spill the beans on treacherous behaviour from where it was least expected. 


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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Eugene de Kock - Part 4

Candice Mama & Eugene de Kock 
The phone calls that I was getting from JK were increasing and every time it had to do with money.  Eventually, playing like I was the dumb arse he thought I was, I asked him to email me his account so that I could discuss it with Ben and then we could see what we could do about it.
While waiting for the “account”, lots of other things were going down.  Two women were of great help in getting Eugene care for his eyes, and the other getting him the things he needed.  These women were Nandi and Hannelie.   The prison conditions were ghastly.  He was cold in winter and could only wear white track tops without any markings on them.  The women went to town hunting down white track tops that were in line with the prison rules.   These people who worked behind the scenes are really the unsung heroes.  Not a single shop in the whole of the country had the required tops so a tailor offered to make the two tops and one of the ladies donated the material.  Then the problem was to get the tops to him.  The tops lay in the warden’s office for six months while Eugene had to write for permission to obtain these items. 
Getting Eugene to his eye examinations also presented a problem.  He had to pay for his own guards, the transport and the examination and treatment.  All would be organised from our side and then the guards that we had paid for did not turn up.  The frustrations were getting beyond a joke and I was starting to lose my cool – again behind what I was putting out there.
Eugene’s visitors were also restricted to a certain number per month and per year and those visits had to include the legal visits.  TM was always going and of course, he took PP with him to one of the visits.  EdK’s visits were all booked up for the year but little pussy had to get herself in there and next to him.  This was after I had already explained that visits should be restricted for those who could actually help him instead of just visiting out of curiosity.   While Nandi and Hannelie were working their arses off for Eugene without anyone knowing, this PP was brushing up her ego by getting close to him via another ego conduit, TM.     
EdK was institutionalised and vulnerable and she took advantage of that.  I can’t like her.  After reading her book (in Afrikaans nogal) sent to me by Hannelie, I liked her even less.  
On another level completely, amazing things were happening between the men and women from the various armed forces.  People who were previously enemies  were not only talking to one another, but were also standing up to be counted, with respect and acknowledgement of the roles each played during the Rooi Gewaar years, and as one harmonious voice to ask for pardon for EdK.  Individual and petty problems were set aside and under the universal umbrella of compassion, stood as one in our appeal for a pardon for Eugene.     Truly miraculous things were happening all the time and I was granted a ring side view of the lives of many via inbox.  Those secrets I will take to my grave.  And those who told can be assured of nothing but my utmost respect.   I know when to shut my mouth, believe it or not.

My journey with Eugene started in a hospital bed in England with a book (A human being died that night) and ended 7 years later in a hospital bed in South Africa.  It was one hell of a ride.  I am not going to regurgitate kak that you can read on google – I am going to continue to tell this story as it happened to me and in connection with me.   And only I know what I know and what I don’t know.  What Ben Kruger knows and does not know is the same – we still dance at the same level as we did during what I call “the eye of the storm”- those last 8 months. 

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Open Letter to Shadow Minister of Correctional Services re: Eugene de Kock

Shadow Minister of Correctional Services, Mr J Selfe
Eugene de Kock 
Honourable Shadow Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Selfe, 

As the situation regarding the neglect from the various departments or committees of the Department of Correctional Services has already been disseminated to you, I merely copy and paste the most important aspects. 

I am the Whistle Blower!!  No member of the Correctional Services or Justice Department need to be implicated.  I am the Whistle Blower and you are free to use my name.  I am sure that you can remember my telephone calls and emails to you about Eugene before...when I asked you about the DA stance on Presidential Pardons. 

At the time, you promised that you would take the matter of Eugene de Kock's parole up with the Minister but I did not receive any feedback.  In fact, Ben Kruger is another concerned person who you had correspondence with via email.  (A new Minister has been installed since).   I am very disappointed that you did not familiarise yourself with the facts of the case so that you could have shadowed this high profile case properly. 
According to our constitution, we are all equal before the law.  Why is the case of Eugene becoming a political soccer ball?  He is an ordinary prisoner and not a political prisoner.  The two concepts are mutually exclusive.  Either he is a political prisoner and politics need to be taken into account, or he is an ordinary prisoner and the letter of the law has to be followed by all government departments and citizens of SA. 

You should be well conversant with the working performances of the CMC and  that the main function of this committee  is namely the preparing of absolute completed profiles of offenders  who qualifies for parole, and to be submitted to the CSPB.  Documents that is very important to this case can be delivered directly to you.  
---the denial of the parole to EdK,  as announced by the Minister of Correctional Services , involved simply about the fact that EdK did not consult with the  families of the victims ;
---the VOD  (Victim Offender Dialogue P rogramme) was invented and launched  by the  DCS, for the mere fact that offenders and victims or families (if they agreed to meet with the offender ) ;

---this VOD programme (violence/violent,  crimes committed as in the case of EdK) was a prerequisite to accompany profiles of offenders of such crimes, with a clear recommendation for the parties to meet and if not, what reasons are there for it not to have been metnot have met.  If this or any other relevant documents were not attached to the profile as the prescribed norm requires, it simply means that the profile was incompetent;
I came to the following conclusions, namely :
---the VOD programme was never applied to in the case of EdK, and this is why the mentioned Minister had no other choice to announce a further profile to be submitted in the next 12 months;
---this announcement cleary indicates the following :
1) the Minister was not aware of the VOD  process that should have accompanied the profile as a competed document;
2) National CSPB,  Senior officials of the DCS  as well as the  acting Commissioner of DCS , were absolutely negligent in the preparation and submitted an uncompleted profile to their Minister , which left the Minister no other choice than to announce a further profile, in  order to give these mentioned parties of DCS a chance to correct their wrong submission of  a well completed profile that meets with prescribed standards .
Honourable  Mr Selfe , Eugene de Kock all the standards to be released immediately on parole .
DCS  officials who were involved with the preparations of his  parole applcation were gross negligent and must be brought forward to explain why the correct procedures were not followed, prior the profile was submitted to their Minister.

Mr Selfe, it is a crying shame that a prisoner has to go to a supreme court to have his rights applied, not only once, but twice to my knowledge. 

Would you kindly ask the relevant questions in parliament and use my name as the Whistle Blower.     I have been instrumental in start a highly popular FaceBook group called FREE EUGENE DE KOCK.   We have a few thousand members and would welcome it for you to join and see for yourself what the people thing about his release.   You will be pleasantly surprised to see the type of people who have become members, people from all racial, cultural, and religious groups.   The group would like to see this man being given a Presidential Pardon, and we will persevere until we get it for Eugene.  

However, parole for someone who meets all the legal requirements should not be side-lined for anything; political or incompetence included. 

I look forward to your earliest response in this regard. 
Yours truly 
Dianne Lang