
Today thursday,it was ruled by a Pretoria court that the killer of Chris Hani,Janusz Walus,will be freed on parole in two weeks after more than 20 years in prison.Chris Hani was well known South Africa apartheid leader.Janusz Walus was serving a life sentence for the
1993 murder of Chris Hani,who is a charismatic activist and politician who was both a senior member of the African National Congress {ANC} and the head of the South African Communist Party {SACP} when he was gunned down.The decision to free him is likely to be contentious in a country still dealing with the legacy of the brutally meted out by the white minority regime that prevailed from
1948 to
1994.Hani's murder threatened to derail South Africa's transition to multi-racial democracy,leading to nationwide riots and triggering fears of a civil war.Walus a Polish immigrant,shot Hani dead outside his johannesburg home.Walus was sentenced alongside Clive Derby-Lewis,a right wing politician who provided the murder weapon.Both men were originally sentenced to death,but that was commuted to life in prison after South Africa abolished the death penalty in
1995.Derby Lewis was freed on medical parole last year.More photos below.

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