Workers at Pretoria old-age home revolt against Eugene de Kock’s stay – report
The erstwhile Vlakplaas commander is said to have left the retirement home accompanied by six men and three cars on Wednesday.
FILE PICTURE: Eugene De Kock a former Vlakplaas commander speaks to the judge at a Truth and Reconcilation commision 24 May 1999 in Pretoria. De Kock, the apartheid regime’s top assassin, is asking the commision for amnesty for over 100 incidents of torture, murder and fraud. Picture: AFP.
Former apartheid hit squad leader Eugene de Kock has reportedly been forced out of a retirement centre in Pretoria after 50 black workers complained about the veil of secrecy surrounding his presence at the facility.
The Sowetan reported on Friday that the workers at the private Ons Tuis Retirement Home allegedly confronted their bosses on Wednesday over the clandestine nature of De Kock’s stay and claimed that, unlike other residents, there was no evaluation done on him or history provided.
The workers, who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said there was no person who had visited the former Vlakplaas commander notoriously known as ‘Prime Evil’ in the two weeks he was at the facility and that if there were any visitors, they had been escorted by security.
“We felt that our lives were in danger. We were scared. We told them we don’t want to serve him,” one worker was quoted as saying. While another worker said: “They think we don’t know our history. They think we’re stupid.”
De Kock is said to have left the retirement home on Wednesday at about 2pm accompanied by six men and three cars.
He got paroled in February 2015 after spending 20 of his 212-year jail sentence for six counts of murder, attempted murder, assault, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearm and fraud.
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