When your nickname is ‘Prime Evil’ you know you have upset a few apple carts.

The man in question, Eugene de Kock, has now been released from prison after 20 years served in what Justice Minister Michael Masutha called ‘the interest of nation-building’.

De Kock was responsible for the apartheid-era death squad which operated from Vlakplaas and was responsible for some truly heinous crimes. This from Times Live:

In 1996, De Kock was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment for the murders of Japie Kereng Maponya and the so-called Nelspruit five: Oscar Mxolisi Ntshota, Glenack Masilo Mama, Lawrence Jacey Nyelende, Khona Gabela and Tisetso Leballo.

He was sentenced to a further 212 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit murder, culpable homicide, kidnapping, assault, and fraud

At the same hearing Clive Derby-Lewis, the man responsible for the murder of Chris Hani, was denied parole despite the advice of the medical parole board.

[source:timeslive]