An "obituary" from the racist/neo-Nazi Stormfront mailing list. Subject: Obituary Sent: 3/20/96 2:56 AM Received: 3/20/96 2:09 AM From: Stormfront-l, stormfront-l@stormfront.org To: jamie@voyager.net From: odin@pixie.co.za (odin) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:03:31 +0200 Subject: Obituary Stormfronters BOER MILITANT LOOD VAN SCHALKWYK DIES IN ANC JAIL Johannesburg, 19 March 1996 A BOER militant today died in an ANC prison after being denied amnesty granted to his co-accused (and to Black activists accused of similar crimes) by South African president Nelson Mandela. Lood van Schalkwyk, 52, died of serious internal bleeding in the state run HF Verwoerd hospital in Pretoria early on Tuesday morning, screaming in agony while the Black hospital staff either ignored him or were not present, and the Black prisons service guard lay drunk in a chair in the same room. Lood was serving a life prison sentence for two violent incidents at the time, and had been booked into the hospital complaining of internal pains. The first incident of which he was convicted took place on 11 August 1990, when a bomb exploded at a crowded Black taxi rank in the center of Pretoria. No-one was killed in this incident, although dozens of Blacks were injured. The second incident for which Lood received the death penalty was a blast on 2 October 1990 in Durban, Natal. A home made parcel bomb, concealed in a computer casing, detonated on the premises of a private computer company, PC Plus. A 23 year old White employee of the company died in the blast. PC Plus was fairly well known in the Durban area as being owned by a left wing sympathizer who specialized in supplying computer equipment to left wing organizations, including ANC aligned trade unions. The director of the company was a draft dodger who had refused to serve in the South African Army. Shortly after this blast Lood and two other men were arrested - Henry Martin and Adriaan Maritz. After being charged with the blasts, the men applied for bail but this application was turned down. They then embarked on a prolonged hunger strike, with the men claiming to have sensitive information which they wished to reveal. Eventually the publicity surrounding the hunger strike grew so intense that ANC leader Nelson Mandela visited them personally, after which they were granted bail. The three men then promptly skipped bail. Martin (a British citizen) and Maritz fled to Britain, while Van Schalkwyk went underground once again. Martin and Maritz split with Lood van Schalkwyk over religion - the former two were supporters of the South African branch of the Church of the Creator, while Lood was a follower of the Israel Vision (known in America as Christian Identity) belief. While in the United Kingdom, Martiz and Martin applied for political asylum, spinning a cock and bull story to the British that they were in fact South African military intelligence agents who had been instructed to infiltrate the right wing to provoke opposition to the ANC. Although patently untrue, and known to be so by all those who knew the two men personally, this story was taken seriously enough to be included in the ADL report on the International Church of the Creator. Lood was soon re-arrested, tried and sentenced to death in 1992. Maritz tried to re-enter South Africa in May 1994, and was rearrested at Jan Smuts airport by the South African Police who had been tipped off by the British police. He however only spent a short time in jail and he was given amnesty early in 1995 under an amnesty law granted by the last white State President of South Africa, FW de Klerk. (Martin was also granted amnesty, although he never returned to South Africa.) De Klerk however only commuted van Schalkwyk's sentence, and did not grant him amnesty. For some inexplicable reason Lood was never granted amnesty, although he clearly qualified for it. A committee, appointed by the ANC to review all outstanding amnesty applications in 1995, recommended to the ANC government that Lood be released, but Mandela personally turned this recommendation down. Herewith follows a press statement on the matter released by the AWB on the matter: Press statement issued by the National Executive of the AWB 19 March 1996 LOOD VAN SCHALKWYK DIES IN PRISON 1. Lood van Schalkwyk, Boer Freedom Fighter, died on 19 March 1996, while still incarcerated by the ANC led government. 2. The AWB extends it's deepest sympathy to the widow and family of Dr. van Schalkwyk. 3. The Whites of this country must not let this patriot's death be in vain. On numerous occasions the AWB appealed to the president to release this man, even though he was not an AWB member, on the grounds that his continued detention was unjustified and malicious. 4. The alleged offenses for which he was incarcerated were all committed before the first cut off amnesty date of 8 October 1990, and his two co-accused were granted amnesty a long time ago. There was no reason at all, apart from bureaucratic bungling, for Dr. Van Schalkwyk to be in prison. 5. The Currin Commission, appointed by the ANC government to review all outstanding amnesty applications, in fact recommended to president Nelson Mandela that Dr. Van Schalkwyk be released - but Mandela turned this recommendation down. 6. Quite apart from the fact that Dr. Van Schalkwyk qualified for amnesty years ago, was recommended for such amnesty by a commission appointed by the ANC, he should have qualified for amnesty on compassionate grounds as well. His health had been deteriorating for a number of years and he was in urgent need of a third heart bypass operation. 7. President Mandela ignored our and many others' requests to release Dr. Van Schalkwyk. Because of Mandela's refusal to listen to these reasonable and completely justified requests, he is to blame for the fact that this man has now tragically died separated from his loved ones. 8. Let it now be clear to all Whites that despite his conciliatory gestures, Mandela's anti-White racism shines like a beacon from a mountain top. Compare his handling of the Van Schalkwyk case with the mass release of thousands of Black murderers and criminals because they were members of the ANC. 9. Can anyone be surprised that White patriots will do anything to escape the hell prisons of this anti-White government? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: Multiple recipients of the Stormfront-L Mailing List Host: Don BlackFinger for PGP public key. To unsubscribe, send e-mail to 'listserv@stormfront.org' with the line 'unsubscribe Stormfront-L' in the message BODY, not the subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Processed with Listserv v2.88 for Wildcat v4
Home ·
Site Map ·
What's New? ·
Search
Nizkor
© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012
This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and
to combat hatred.
Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.
As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may
include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and
provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist
and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.