Lamola: Correctional services not involved in sustaining Eugene de Kock

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The department of correctional services is not involved in the alleged payment of a salary to apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock by the state, says minister Ronald Lamola.

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“At the time of assuming my duties as the minister I was not aware of the allegations that [the] parolee is paid, as parolees do not receive payments from the department of correctional services,” he said. De Kock was subject to parole conditions as contemplated in section 52 of the Correctional Services Act, and section 52 of the act was also applicable, he said.

According to evidence from unidentified witnesses, dubbed “Mr Y” through a written affidavit and “Ms K” in oral evidence, the government, through SSA's “Operation Lock”, spent R200,000 on De Kock every month after his release.They did not reveal the reasons for the expenditure but said it included a state-sponsored safe house for the assassin and a R40,000 monthly “salary”.

 

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Yet Ramaphosa says he fights corruption.Kuphi?Why did Zuma release De Kock the murderer?ANC is traumatizing us big time.

Let's start with his release.

So it might be that De Kock is actually employment there by SSA, there seems to be a high level arrangement securing his life of comfort courtesy of 'black excellence President', just what does De Kock have on this fellow?

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