EUGENE DE KOCK - PART 7
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| EdK visitng his brother and family for the first time after parole |
First let me tell you why we have not heard from
Eugene. He has been guarded with four
guards 24/7 and has been unable to do his own thing; hence his two hour
incarceration in prison the other week.
He was trying to get himself out of this “witness protection” process
and actually be as free as he can be, given his parole restrictions. This time, JK came to the rescue. I do not know if JK was paid or not.
The real reason Eugene has not contacted us, even
those who he are closest to, is two-fold.
First there was his 24/7guards and then there is his idea that if he
makes contact with us, it will make life difficult for us and he is trying to
protect us. Well, bless his heart, but I
don’t need protection.
The more time that went past, the more crap that I was
getting from JK regarding Eugene (because he said a lot of words that meant
nothing), the more frustrated I became.
Then a few of us pulled together to free Eugene ourselves. The integrity of these few people who were
prepared to put their lives on the line to free him speaks volumes. We knew the difficulty, we knew the layout, we
knew the problems we would encounter and we knew the punishment or otherwise
that we would be facing if the plan failed.
It is so sad that this part of the story never got to reach the ears of
even Ben – there are people out there that were prepared to bring Eugene out of
prison and hide him for an indefinite period of time. That I
call determination and dedication to make sure that one of our soldiers were
not left behind.
A lot of energy and organising went into that. The only thing I told Ben was that “I think
we should go in and take him out ourselves” He nearly had a heart attack on the
spot. “Don’t even think about it MC” he
said – giving me the same story of how close we were to his parole. I, of course, was happy to run with it, but
only until a certain date. If the judge
did not grant him his parole, we were going to take him out ourselves. It was a decision that had already been taken.
Every single thing that I had tried had not worked, so the final
deadline was the judgement of the judge at his final parole hearing.
For those who do not remember, there were many parole
hearings and the reasons that they were denied were varied, but the one just
before the last one is what sent our blood pressure soaring. The reason given was that he had not spoken
to all his victims. That was a blatant
lie. The fact that the Correctional Services
had not made adequate note of his dealings with his victims was a
disgrace. For me personally, I felt that
they were using Eugene as a scapegoat for everything bad in a white man while
Mandela was being paraded around as everything good in a black man. To think that the highest decorated policeman
ever in South Africa, Eugene, was languishing in a prison for no other reason
than political and racist reasons was abhorrent to me. Our plan to hijack and hide Eugene was fool
proof – no one would ever have found him. In retrospect, I am sorry we did not go
through with our plan. The prison
conditions were appalling. He was often
ill with flu or bronchitis and his eyes were a constant source of concern. Giving
what went down from before the final announcement by the judge on his parole, I
truly am sorry we did not take him out ourselves. At least then we could have nurtured him and
given him space and time to heal without guards, TM and PP hanging around.
JK was still calling me and asking me for money to pay
the outstanding bill. And because I was pretending to be doff, I asked him to
email me the statement and I would discuss it with our committee to see if we
had enough to pay him. He was evading
the actual amount, but the following emails are the kinds of emails I was
getting; trying to show me that huge amounts of money were outstanding. I also found his approach to the parole
conditions completely wrong – I made it my business to know the law on
prisoners and parole so it did give me some right (although I only voiced this
to Ben) to say that I believed he was fucking Eugene’s chances up.
I include some self-explanatory emails that were being
used to keep me guessing while they kept on asking for money:
Julian Knight
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21 April 2015 at 13:57
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To: dianne.lang1@gmail.com
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