/ 10 December 2001

MARIKE’S SELF-CONFESSED KILLER IN COURT

A SECURICOR Gray worker is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of killing former first lady Marike de Klerk. De Klerk (64) was found dead at her luxury apartment on the Cape West Coast last week on Tuesday, and was buried in Pretoria on Saturday. The suspect (21) was arrested a day after De Klerk was found stabbed and strangled to death in her condominium at Dolphin Beach in Blaauwberg on Tuesday. The man, who was a security guard at the complex where she lived, has allegedly confessed before a Cape Town magistrate that he was involved in her death. De Klerk was married to former president FW de Klerk who divorced her in 1998 after a marriage of 39 years. – Sapa