[Pic] Kevin Woods speaks out regarding Vlok's attempted poisoning of Chikane

[Kevin Woods dropped me a line with his views on the issue of Vlok murdering Chikane.

Kevin tells me that his book is at the printers and it will hit the shelves in Mid-October. This is probably going to be the most important book to come out in Southern Africa in years. I can't wait for it.

I do also worry about Kevin's safety. He has to go for a heart-bypass - and he's been putting it off for after his book is out. It is a move I agree with. Kevin is an awesome man - a real hero.

I also wrote some of my thoughts on the whole Vlok, Chikane matter:
The BIZARRE 2007 Vlok Apartheid Trial & Dr Death

Here are some news reports about it:
SA: A Former General responds re: Why Vlok tried to poison Chikane
SA: Vlok 'presumed' PW Botha ordered kill
The communists made me do it: Vlok Jan]

VLOK; THE SAME BRUSH FOR ALL

The virtual amnesty granted Adriaan Vlok, van der Merwe and company last week leaves everyone I have spoken to quite astounded.

What was the point of the whole exercise?

In this day and age, giving Vlok a suspended sentence is absolutely meaningless, and I certainly do not mean he should have gone to jail. Does anyone really expect him to go back to annihilating opponents of the Apartheid regime when his 5 year term for good behaviour expires? The war of liberation IS OVER, for crying out loud.

There was absolutely no justifiable reason for the state to go through that meaningless waste of time and resources. Are the Court rolls throughout South Africa not backlogged with awaiting trial prisoners who would have longed for their day in court instead of giving way for this case from the long ago past?

Many people now wait with bated breath in anticipation of reciprocal prosecutions for anti-apartheid leaders, who authorized the killing of activists inside South Africa and in liberation movement training camps abroad.

Surely this is a can of worms that serves no one? Especially if there is to be no level playing field and the prosecutions are to be selective?
And for there to be any semblance of fair play and the 'nation building' we hear about, then surely people like former security policeman Eugene de Kock, and others from across the political spectrum, should also be given a chance of 'virtual amnesty', just as has been afforded Vlok and company, for their activity during the same struggle?

Eugene de Kock has been jailed since 1994. Therein lies the difference. There are many guilty people who have not spent a second in custody.
The decision taken with Vlok by the National Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mr Frank Chikane, the victim, and whichever politicians in the current establishment who were involved in this resolution was indeed magnanimous and a true indication that South Africans can rise above their past, and look to the future with confidence and pride, but this resolution has to be across the board for it to carry any substantial and meaningful significance.

And because there are people in jail who need their cases looked at objectively, the State must proceed with decorum, and essentially, with haste and finish this once and for all...

To avoid any misconception as to the motives of this letter, I have just spent 20 years in Zimbabwe's maximum security prisons for apartheid era related crimes, so my slate is clean. There is nothing for me to benefit, or indeed fear, with Vlok and whomever else's prosecution and amnesty. I've done my time.

Yours Faithfully
Kevin John Woods
Cell Number 0846064272
Kloof, Durban.
Former South African double agent and Political Prisoner