/ 9 April 1999

RIGHTWINGER THREATENS TERROR

A RIGHTWINGER, who earlier this year received amnesty for 32 acts of terror, on Friday threatened to resume bombings in solidarity with Chris Hani’s assassins who were denied amnesty earlier this week for the SA Communist Party leader’s murder. Dries Kriel, secretary-general of the Boereweerstandsbeweging, in a statement on Friday said he wanted the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee to revoke the amnesty it granted him and to “keep me and my comrades in jail”. A TRC spokesman said it was not possible to revoke Kriel’s amnesty in terms of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act. Kriel also made an appeal to other rightwingers who were granted amnesty, to return to jail in protest against Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus’ denial of amnesty.