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The quiet anger of the apartheid; Former police chief Johann van der Merwe speaks to Kevin Ritchie and tellshim about being treated with contempt by both the TRC and the politicians.(News)
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The Saturday Star (South Africa)
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August 25, 2007
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General Johann van der Merwe isn't a bitter man, but he he's not overjoyed either. Last Friday, the man who was apartheid South Africa's last police commissioner - before serving as the first post-apartheid commissioner under Nelson Mandela - pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Reverend Frank Chikane.
In terms of a plea bargain, Van der Merwe received a 10-year jail sentence suspended for five years, along with former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok.
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