Parole recommended for Derby-Lewis
It has been recommended that Clive Derby-Lewis be granted parole, Justice Minister Mike Masutha said on Monday.
"There has been a positive recommendation, in other words recommending the release on parole," he told reporters in Pretoria.
"We are looking at those matters also in the light of the submissions from the SACP... who submitted a memorandum."
Derby-Lewis has been convicted of killing SA Communist Party secretary general Chris Hani.
Hani was shot dead in the driveway of his Boksburg home on April 10 1993.
Derby-Lewis, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, has already served more than 20 years of his sentence.
The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP has twice been denied medical parole.
He has been stabbed on two different occasions by inmates at the Kgosi Mampuru Central Correctional Centre in Pretoria.
