Apartheid murder plotters guilty

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 17 August 2007, 11:22 GMT 12:22 UK

Apartheid murder plotters guilty

Five former security officials in South Africa's apartheid
regime have received suspended prison sentences for plotting
to kill an anti-apartheid activist.

Former Police Minister Adriaan Vlok and his then police chief
Johan van der Merwe got suspended 10-year sentences.

The others received suspended five-year sentences from the
court in Pretoria.

Under a plea bargain, all five admitted trying to kill prominent
black activist Frank Chikane in 1989 by lacing his underwear
with a nerve toxin.

Rev Chikane, who is now a director in the president's office,
has said he did not want to see the men go to prison.

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