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Article: Zimbabwe frees apartheid killers; Mugabe pardons ailing but grateful 'Harare Three', who launched a car-bomb attack on ANC exiles in 1988. Two are ordered to SA and one chooses to stay.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2006
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BYLINE: Basildon Peta and Karyn Maughan
Nearly two decades after they were sentenced to death for murder and sabotage committed in Zimbabwe for the apartheid government, three ailing prisoners have been pardoned by President Robert Mugabe.
Kevin Woods, 53, Michael Smith, 53, and Philip Conjwayo, 73, walked out of Harare central prison yesterday into the bright winter sunshine. They had spent 19 years in Zimbabwe's grim Chikurubi maximum security prison, from where they were moved last year. Woods and Smith immediately drove to South Africa, where Woods's wife and children now live, while Conjwayo chose to remain in Zimbabwe.
It was not clear why ...