Posted on 12/07/2022 2:54:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
The far-right gunman who killed South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani has been released on parole a week after he was stabbed in prison.
Janusz Walus, 69, has been discharged under strict conditions for two years, the authorities say.
He shot Hani in 1993 in a failed attempt to derail South Africa's transition from a white-minority government to democratic rule.
SNIP
Hani was regarded as the most popular politician after Nelson Mandela, who went on to become the country's first black president in 1994.
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Given that Walus was an immigrant from communist Poland, he probably shot Hani because the latter was the leader of the SA communist party, rather than for any racial reasons.
I am against communism, but I don’t shoot communists.
Don’t blame him one bit.
Hanoi was a top leader of the Soviet/KGB/GRU aided Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) along with Oliver Tambo, etc.
No spin in this article. Nope, none.
The capital of Vietnam was a top leader of the Soviet/KGB/GRU aided Communist party of South Africa?
But communists will shoot you. And as seen during the summer of love, many get away with it.
In 2018, WaluĊ told Polish journalist Cezary Lazarewicz that “in 1993, there was a war in South Africa and he felt like a soldier... He still believes in the system of racial segregation and that whites and blacks should live apart.”
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