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Why Hani`s killer can`t just be deported

Source: Africa News Agency, 14/03/2016


Why Hani`s killer can`t just be deported
11 March 2016 – Africa News Agency

Cape Town – The man who assassinated Chris Hani 23 years ago, Janusz
Walus, is a naturalised South African citizen, South Africa`s home
affairs department said on Friday.
The department said in a statement it "noted reports relating to the
citizenship status of Polish immigrant, Janusz Walus, who was
convicted for the murder of Chris Hani, the former General Secretary
of the South African Communist Party (SACP)".
"We wish to put it on record that Mr Walus was granted a permanent
residence permit in 1981 prior to attaining citizenship through the
naturalisation process in 1987 under legislation administered by the
apartheid government," the department said.
"In this regard, the Department of Home Affairs will monitor
developments and will comment further at an appropriate time."
The comments came after the ANC called for Walus to be deported
following the North Gauteng ruling that he be released on parole.
"The African National Congress demands that Janusz Walus is
immediately deported to his country of origin on his release; never to
return to South Africa," a statement from the ruling party said.
Walus, 63, who left then communist Poland in 1981 to join his family
in South Africa, shot and killed Hani on Easter Sunday April 10, 1993.
He was later convicted and sentenced to death, but this was commuted
to life.
He approached the high court after the justice minister denied his
application for parole last year.
The man who aided him in Hani`s assasination, Clive Derby-Lewis, was
released on medical parole last year.
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