Mbalula slams Walus’ freedom as an injustice

December 6, 2024 176

ANC Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, says Janusz Walus deprived South Africa of one of its greatest leaders, and his release without a full confession of his actions and conspiracies remains an injustice.

Mbalula was reacting to the announcement of Walus’ imminent deportation to his home country of Poland after completing his parole.

The Justice, Home Affairs, Correctional Services and the Presidency Ministers made the announcement earlier today.

They say they didn’t want the public to find out from unreliable sources about his killer’s deportation to avoid misinformation.

Hani’s death came at a critical time for South Africa, a year before the country’s first democratic election.

Some South Africans, including politicians, are still angry over it. They believe that the firebrand was sold out by his own comrades.

“The assassination of Comrade Chris Hani was a well-orchestrated scheme designed to plunge the country into chaos, an attempt to subvert the course for a negotiated political settlement, thus deferring a dream for a democratic South Africa after many years of apartheid subjugation,” says Mbalula.

The ANC Secretary General echoed the sentiments of many other South Africans who are calling for an inquiry into the assassination.

“This is a sad and painful moment for the Hani family, the ANC, the working class and the poor and the South African Communist Party for which he was the General Secretary.”

Chris Hani will never come back to life, but Janusz Walus gets deported to a first world and very safe country to be a hero in Poland. ANC has grieved Mrs Hani and the rest of the Hani family. She has expressed that “black lives are cheap in South Africa”. pic.twitter.com/X4ZAZ79ZcA

— Miss Portia (@MissPortiaGrace) December 6, 2024

Walus was released on parole in 2022 after serving almost three decades behind bars for killing the struggle stalwart.

Hani was assassinated outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg, in 1993. He was the secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at the time of his death, when the organisation was on the verge of becoming an independent political party.

Written by: Lindiwe Mpanza

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