A parole hearing for a former champion tennis player, tennis instructor and convicted rapist Bob Hewitt has been scheduled at Port Elizabeth’s North End prison – and despite an instruction by President Cyril Ramaphosa that no visits to South African prisons will be allowed in the next 30 days, one of his victims and her lawyer are determined to attend.
In September 2019 the Parole Board ruled that he should be released on parole which would expire on September 2022. This decision was overturned by the parole review board after a panel chaired by Judge Siraj Desai decided that Hewitt’s victims were not given a chance to participate in a restorative justice process.
On Sunday 15 March President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the global pandemic caused by the virus a State of Disaster in South Africa and among otherannounced that no visits to prisons will be allowed for the next 30 days. This was backed up by the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, who said in a follow-up press conference on Monday that they will not be “taking any risks” and had started the process to sanitise all prisons.
MarianneThamm Evil. I sincerely hope RonaldLamola will not let this monster be released quietly while the media is busy elsewhere.
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