Former apartheid minister Adriaan Vlok has died.
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Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa's apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted, died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said.
The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, "passed away early this morning in the Unitas Hospital in Centurion, after a short illness," a family spokesman said in a statement.
The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, "passed away early this morning in the Unitas Hospital in Centurion, after a short illness," a family spokesman said in a statement.
