Chris Hani’s widow, Limpho Hani has slammed the judiciary for granting her husband, Chris Hani’s killer Janusz Waluś parole last year saying the Polish assassin could be plotting to profit from his death,
Hani was assassinated by the Polish hitman Waluś at his Boksburg home on this day 10 April in 1993.
Limpho Hani was speaking at the 30th Annual Commemoration of the death of Hani, a former SACP general secretary, in Boksburg on Monday amid fresh calls for an inquest into the death of the former Umkhonto WeSizwe Chief of Staff, to be reopened..
After being jailed for Hani’s murder and applying for parole several times without success, Waluś was finally released last year after a Constitutional Court ruling.
Limpho Hani was scathing on the decision by the Concourt alleging that Waluś was released under cover of darkness in secret by a democratic government.
“The last to be released from prison was released in the middle of the night, in secret, under protection by my democratic government. As it is this killer may even be plotting to profit from Chris’s killing, be it books, film and whatever/
“Our system enabled this criminal to continue with life as if he didn’t take my husband from me and as though he didn’t take your comrade from you. I am not sure if it is true that criminals are owed the privilege of parole outside the victim’s impact statement.
“Surely our criminal laws should also have constitutional validity and emphasis. Could they choose to ignore us and focus on the killer’s privileges? Surely Chris’s life should also be worth something to our course and the law,” she added.
Hani described freeing Waluś from jail as a slap in the face saying the opportunity for the full truth of Chris Hani’s assassination is now ‘buried and lost completely’.
