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Janusz Walus: Killer of South African Anti-Apartheid Hero Chris Hani Freed
BBC ^ | 12/7 | Nomsa Maseko & Dickens Olewe

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiapartheid; murder; southafrica

1 posted on 12/07/2022 2:54:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

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.


2 posted on 12/07/2022 3:05:39 PM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: lump in the melting pot

I am against communism, but I don’t shoot communists.


3 posted on 12/07/2022 3:06:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: lump in the melting pot

Don’t blame him one bit.


4 posted on 12/07/2022 3:07:05 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: nickcarraway

Hanoi was a top leader of the Soviet/KGB/GRU aided Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) along with Oliver Tambo, etc.


5 posted on 12/07/2022 3:53:17 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: nickcarraway

No spin in this article. Nope, none.


6 posted on 12/07/2022 5:50:06 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The capital of Vietnam was a top leader of the Soviet/KGB/GRU aided Communist party of South Africa?


7 posted on 12/07/2022 7:41:44 PM PST by Jacob Kell ("I would rather go hunting with Kyle Rittenhouse....than make a movie with Alec Baldwin")
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To: nickcarraway

But communists will shoot you. And as seen during the summer of love, many get away with it.


8 posted on 12/07/2022 8:09:01 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: lump in the melting pot

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.”


9 posted on 12/07/2022 9:11:53 PM PST by Cronos (.)
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