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Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa’s apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted has died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said.<\/p>

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The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, “passed away early this morning in the Unitas Hospital in Centurion, after a short illness,” a family spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the late 1980s, Vlok oversaw bomb attacks on churches and trade unions seen as hostile to white-rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I believed that apartheid was right,” he told AFP in 2015. “It was our job to make people fear us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his old age he said he had changed his mindset, and sought redemption by handing out food to the poor in a township — settlements outside cities designed to segregate non-whites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, Adriaan Vlok was given a 10-year suspended sentence for attempting to murder a prominent opposition figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had sought to kill Reverend Frank Chikane — then head of a leading anti-apartheid organisation — some 18 years earlier by rubbing poison on clothes in the priest’s luggage at Johannesburg airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I feel ashamed of many things I have done,” he said at his sentencing, admitting that his commitment to the racist regime was “a mistake.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former minister has publicly apologised to his victims, even symbolically washing Chikane’s feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His detractors insisted it was a crude stunt to avoid revealing the extent of the abuses committed by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To shed light on the atrocities committed by the regime, the government of Nelson Mandela set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It guaranteed amnesty for those responsible for political violence in exchange for full confessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But few took part in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few cases of apartheid-era abuses have resulted in a trial and many critics say it is an “unfinished mission” to heal the wounds of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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