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MILITARY Derby-Lewis was a volunteer for nineteen years in the South African Citizen Force and became the youngest ever Commanding Officer of the Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment , which was affiliated to the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) . He was awarded the John Chard medal for long and meritorious service. COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL HISTORY He joined the National Party and became a town councillor for Bedfordview (1972-1977), Deputy Mayor (1973-1974) and then Mayor (1974-1975), and was made a Freeman of the Johannesburg Mini-Council. He served as the member representing Edenvale, Gauteng , on the Transvaal Provincial Council (1972-1981) where he was for several years the National Party spokeman on Education and Hospital Services. In addition he served on the boards of numerous other bodies including hospitals, primary and high schools, and a school for retarded children. In 1987 , Derby-Lewis hosted a public meeting held in Johannesburg by Holocuast Denier David Irving . PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY He was a founder member of the Conservative Party when it split from the National Party in 1982 over what was perceived by Derby-Lewis and others as a softening of the government's Apartheid policies of racial segregation and discrimination. He was a member of the new party's General Council and Parliamentary Caucus until 1993. He also served on the Transvaal Party Council as well as on that council's Information and Financial Committee. Derby-Lewis was elected the Conservative Party Member Of Parliament for Krugersdorp in May 1987 and served on the following parliamentary groups: : Economic Affairs & Technology (including Mineral Affairs); : Administration and Privatization; : Finance; : Foreign Affairs; : Home Affairs. He also represented the Conservative Party on the Standing Committees of Parliament dealing with the Provincial Affairs of Natal , and Trade and Commerce. When the Conservative Party became the Official Opposition he was appointed Chief Spokesman on Economic Affairs, Technology, and Mineral Affairs. He was the only member of the Conservative Party Parliamentary Caucus to have served in all four levels of government in South Africa . In September 1989 he was formally appointed to the State President's Council, where he served on the Economic Affairs and the Amenities Committees. He visited London twice in an official Conservative Party delegation, including that of June 1989, which included their leader, Dr. Andries Treurnicht and Natal party chief Carl Werth. About that time he joined the London-based Western Goals Institute as an honorary Vice-President, and was one of their delegation to the 22nd World Anti-Communist League Conference in Brussels in July 1990. ASSASSINATION OF CHRIS HANI Derby-Lewis was arrested for aiding and abetting a Polish Anti-communist immigrant to South Africa, Janusz Walus , in the assassination (10th April 1993) of Chris Hani , General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and leader of the African National Congress ' military wing. Derby-Lewis had loaned the gun used in the assassination to Walus. An alleged hit list of senior ANC and South African Communist Party figures had been developed by Derby-Lewis and his wife and included Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at numbers one and two. Hani was number three on the list. Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiracy to murder and , the Cape High Court dismissed an application by Derby-Lewis and Walus to overturn the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's decision {Link without Title} . The London-based ''Patriot'' (South African Patriot in Exile) journal published a Special Edition (no.32, 1994) with front-page photo and a headline "Release Clive Derby-Lewis - Political Prisoner" and a centre-pages article on him. REFERENCES
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