/ 13 November 2000

JAILED CLERIC’S EARLY RELEASE JEOPARDISED

JAILED anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak may lose a 10-month remission of his sentence because he was caught with a mobile phone in his cell, a prisons spokesman said. The discovery might also scupper a court application by Boesak to have his three-year sentence commuted to correctional supervision. Boesak, a flamboyant former leader of the ANC in the Western Cape, was in 1999 convicted of fraud and theft involving foreign donor funds destined for victims of apartheid. – AFP