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Parole decisions for Derby-Lewis, Barnard and De Kock─── 09:12 Fri, 30 Jan 2015
Pretoria - Justice Minister Michael Masutha will announce today whether Clive Derby-Lewis and apartheid killers Ferdi Barnard and Eugene De Kock get parole.
Derby-Lewis is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the assassination of SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani, in April 1993, and has repeatedly been denied parole.
Earlier this week there were reports that the medical parole board had recommended that Derby-Lewis, who suffers from lung cancer, be released from custody.
Barnard, who is a former apartheid-era Civil Co-Operation Bureau (CCB) agent was found guilty 17 years ago of the murder of anti-apartheid activist David Webster. Barnard was given two life terms plus a further 63 years in jail.
De Kock, former Vlakplaas commander and one of the apartheid regime's most notorious killers, has spent over two decades behind bars, following his arrest in 1994 and his conviction two years later in the Pretoria High Court.
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