wpu.nu

Sida:Pol-1997-03-04 HBL17858-00 Dirk Johanes Coetzee.pdf/18

Från wpu.nu

Den här sidan har inte korrekturlästs


- 18 (32) -

Johann Coetzee: 1990 ... 1980 ... 1993.


FHL Hans Ölvebro: 1983 yes.

Johann Coetzee:

You're six (6) months in Cape Town, where Parliament is sitting, and six (6) months in Pretoria.

And I mean even though you liked people or they were good policemen or bad policemen, you haven't got the time at all to be in contact with them.

In 1985, I remember that you know he applied for his discharge from the police.

I think it must have been. I don't know exactly, one day from about half of 1985 towards the end he applied and so on.

And I met him there, you know the security branch headquarters is next to police headquarters and sometimes you meet people in the alleys and I says:

"But Craig Williamson you know you've got a good career, you're a major, why do you want to leave now?"

I must say this though, that Craig Williamson was not in the police for money, money was never an issue with him.

He comes from a rich family. He's a rich man in his own right, so one would expect that at some stage a man like that would not remain in a job for a pension and so on, but I said:

"Well, you're a major already, why do you want to leave?"

Now he told me that he was going into business. He was going to be a businessman.

I said:

"All right".

And so he left the police.

The first time that I again heard about Mister Craig Williamson was when ... now I must tell you that I left in ... the police as I've said effectively end of 1986, effectively, although I went to parliament in the beginning of 1987, but then parliament was sitting and when I came back, it was just saying good bye: different parties all over the country and I'm gone.

So it must have been 1987, late in 1987 or 1988. The police still invited me Santon City, it was a very big function, invited me and my wife.

Very very big occasion: police, all the generals were there and so on and so on. I was with Foreign Affairs now at this stage.

And then he came as we went into the foyer, he came and he had two gentlemen with him. And he said:

"Hello, General, can I introduce my friends?"

And they were Portuguese people as far as I'm concerned. And then my wife still said:

"They must be selling prawns or something. They must be in the prawn business."

This is the last time that I saw Mister Craig Williamson. Now I want to add this, Sir