By Zuko Komisa
Law and Order apartheid Minister Adriaan Vlok has died.
Vlok died early Sunday morning (8 January 2023) at the age of 85 in Centurion.
He was the former Minister of Correctional Services in July 1991 and is particularly remembered as the Minister of Law and Order from 1986 in the cabinet of the late former President P.W. Botha.
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Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to UNISA History lecturer, Steve Lebelo about who Adriaan Vlok was.
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After apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok passed away on Sunday at the age of 85, President Cyril Ramaphosa also reacted to his passing.
According to Ramaphosa, Vlok was charged with and found guilty of some of the atrocities committed during the apartheid era.
“Vlok was charged and was found guilty for his attempted murder of Frank Chikane and was given a suspended sentence. That is how the justice system, in the end, liberated and concluded the matter.
“Of course, there are many other crimes and many other people who still need to account. Some of those have been taken up by the families and the state, and government itself needs to continue taking those up. The decision taken is that we are going to be doing that. The ministry of justice is looking at all that, and that processing is also going to get underway,” he said.
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