AFRICA'S MINISTER OF JUSTICE
LUSAKA, Zambia -=- South Africats Minister of Justice Vorster stated that he had received more than 2,000 cables and letters from all over the world, including the United Nations, pleading that he reprieve Zinakale Mkaba, father of three, Vuyisila Mini, trade-union organizer, and Wilson Khayingo, a delivery hand, who were alleged to have killed a.police informer named Mange.
Vorster said that he was rejecting these pleas with contempt because "murder" ‘had been committed,
On the morning of November 6, the three opponents of apartheid
met their death as martyrs to the cause of .freedom,
Vorster is a sadist of notorious background. During the last war he was a general in a pro-Hitler Afrikaner secret organization, the Ossewa~Brandwag which had an extremist corps called the Stormjaers. (stormtroopers), This: organization, which openly espoused’ the doctrines .of Nazism, was responsible. for many acts. of sabotage durs’*" ing the: war.) Pylons and post offices: were blown up, raiis were tam=<~* pered. with,» In the. bombing of. the Post’ office at ‘Benoni, an innocent passer= by: was killed. OER ER
“Under the Simuts government, two stormjaers were found euilty. and. sentenced to death There was a hue and cry amongst Afrikaner circles. and petitions.for. mercy flooded: the government... Smuts re# 3) prieved them and within a.fortnight of the Nationalist victory in. 1948, they received free: pardons.and were subsequently feted as heroes at a big dinner given in Pretoria to celebrate their release, -
Vorster, as one of the leaders, was interned. during the war. Verwoerd. was editor of Transvaler at the time. He was found guilty in a court of law of being an agent for the Nazis: and an “upholder of fascism. : a my “As. minister of justice in charge of one of. the biggest police . forces? in- the world, Vorster. has transformed the whole country into oI a virtual. concentration camp, For its size, South Africa has ‘the’ biggest daily jail population in’ the world, Figures released in” South Africa itself on November 5 reveal that the daily jail population for,1963 was 67,000 (mainly: for violations of racial laws) as against: 3,000 in the *Netherlands,. By way of comparison, the popula- ~ tion: of. the: latter country in 1962 was an estimated 11,797 2 0005. ~ South. Africa's estimated 1961 population | was 16, 256, 000. .
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