Response to an editorial Tim du Plessis of Beeld  wrote about Clive Derby-Lewis

Derby-Lewis en Shaik hoort albei in tronk

 Dear Mr. du Plessis,

 For more than twenty years now I've watched you undermine Afrikanerdom. It was very clear to me in 1993,  and it is even clearer to me now, that you are an agent of influence. I called you that then, and I reiterate that now.

 I often wondered how a person of your limited ability could somehow attain the position of editorship, given the character restrictions you are so obviously saddled with. It only makes sense when there is some other agenda. No real patriot - be he Palestinian, Egyptian or anyone else - could so systematically undermine his own people, to the extent that you have, and get away with it.

How does a person who is so mediocre stay in your job? How can an influential Afrikaans newspaper appoint an editor who is such an aberration? How do you survive? Or are you doing the work you were programmed to do so well?

 Your year spent with the CIA-front Nieman Foundation in America  has certainly paid dividends for those who footed the bill for your time there.

 Your editorial that Clive Derby-Lewis deserves every day that he has spent in jail and your emphasis on medical parole is disingenuous, but this is how you always were! You have always been adept at skirting around the truth. You know as well as anybody that Clive has not asked for medical parole.

 BY LAW he qualifies for normal parole - a law, by the way, legislated by the ANC whom you so artfully helped come to power.

Act 111 of 1998 states that after serving 15 years, and being over 65 years of age, a prisoner qualifies for parole. Clive was recommended TWICE for parole by the Parole Board, and each time was thwarted by the politics of the ANC who need the communist party rabble's votes. So harping about medical parole is simply dishonest, but then you'd know all about that tack, wouldn't you?

 True to your ilk, you have deviously misrepresented the story to your readers. You have ignored the law of the land, and are thus no better than those in government and elsewhere  who ignore the law when it suits them. You are all birds of a feather, and if you think you are a cut above, then you are delusional..

 You are a disgrace to Afrikanerdom. It is a tragedy that someone like you holds the position you do. You are one of the more tawdry elements in the sellout of the Afrikaner. In any  decent country, you would never have risen above the insignificance you so richly deserve. But then mediocrity, deceit and political groveling are par for the course in this country, and you fit in very well.

 Gaye Derby-Lewis