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March 10, 2016

Chris Hani’s Other Killer Is Set To Be Released

The pair who were convicted for the assassination of Chris Hani will both be free when the Polish immigrant will be released on parole.
Secretary General of the South African Communist Party Chris Hani was killed at his home in surburban Johannesburg April 10. Photo taken December 1991

Janusz Walus (below) is the other convicted killer of Chirs Hani and, in two weeks, he is set to be released on parole after winning his appeal. Hani, the then SACP leader, was assassinated outside his home in Dawn Park in Boksburg in 1993 by Clive Derby-Lewis and Walus, a Polish immigrant.

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Derby-Lewis (below) was released from prison last year June after serving 22 years.

Clive Derby-Lewis adjusts his headphones at the start of the day's Truth and Reconciliation Commission at Pretoria City Hall August 19. Derby-Lewis, along with Polish immigrant Janusz Walus, are seeking a pardon for the assassination of popular communist party leader Chris Hani in 1993. - RTXHC1A

Here’s what the SACP had to say according to EWN:

“We received the judgment with great disappointment, but in a way the signs that it will come out this way were there because the judge kept asking questions which suggested that she will make an order such as the one she made today.”

[source:ewn]