British Conservatives And South Africa

EDM number 1781 in 1992-93, proposed by Peter Hain on 19/04/1993.

That this House, noting that the former South African Conservative Party member of Parliament, Clive Derby-Lewis, arrested in connection with the assassination of Chris Hani, is President of the Western Goals Institute, an extreme right group with links to both the Tory party and Nazi organisations in Europe, and whose British section according to its United Kingdom Chairman, Andrew Smith, has a majority of members who are also members of the British Conservative Party, and further that Downing Street policy advisers and Conservative honourable members have spoken at or attended its meetings and that in 1989 Mr Derby-Lewis spoke at a Western Goals fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference and in 1990 returned to Britain to address a Conservative Monday Club meeting within the Palace of Westminster precincts, strongly urges the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Conservative Party to inquire whether any member of the Tory Party or Tory honourable Members have participated in activity to destablise the process of peace and democratic transition in South Africa or has links with terroristic elements inside and outside the South African intelligence and security forces.

This motion has been signed by a total of 69 MPs.