Newcastle law-student Siphesihle Bherere Nkwanyana threatens to kill Clive Derby-Lewis, 78, if South Africa's oldest political prisoner is released from prison: -
Clive Derby-Lewis served 20 years of his sentence for his owning the gun which was used by Polish-born murderer Janus Walusz to kill the leader of the South African Communist Party, Chris Hani in a political assassination before the ANC-regime took over hegemony of South Africa in 1994. Mr Derby-Lewis was twice stabbed inside the Pretoria Prison where he is incarcerated over the past few months. He suffers from terminal cancer and there is a well-organized campaign by human-rights groups including religious ministers to have him released for humanitarian reasons.
Amongst the publicity generated by the campaign, there have been many negative comments by blacks on facebook and on twitter in South Africa.
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However the law student overstepped the "Freedom of Speech' mark when he openly threatened to kill Derby-Lewis on the facebook page of the Economic Freedom Fighters party's 'foot soldiers' facebook page, which has 141 members.
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on #EFFFootSoldiers facebook: " If Clive Derby lewis is released from prison I willl kill him nyself personally cause the day that Thembelihle Hani died he died with South Africa's real freedom.Long live Thembelihle Hani Long live. https://www.facebook.com/sphelele.bherere?fref=pb_other
-- I pointed out to him a facebook-communication on June 27 2014 that "Hatespeech can lead to genocide" http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/OutsideResearch_Hate_Speech_and_Group-Targeted_Violence.pdf
He reportedly has since 'removed the comment from the forum of "EFF foot soldiers' on facebook."
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