EFF rejects the Constitutional Court ruling to release the murderer of Chris Hani, Janusz Walus

21 November 2022

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) rejects the Constitutional Court ruling to release the murderer of Chris Hani, Janusz Walus. In its ruling the Constitutional Court which is supposed to be the highest court in the land has undermined the sensitivities of our people and will invoke instability in our country. The murderer of Chris Hani cannot be forgiven and must therefore remain in prison until death.

The decision to release Janusz Walus is callous, insensitive and regressive, and is made by a self-centred collective led by Raymond Zondo, who have today spit on the grave of Chris Hani and those who died fighting for the freedom of this country.

There has been no resolution between Janusz Walus and the Hani family, a family which has consistently opposed his release due to the trauma they suffered, of discovering the lifeless and bloody body of their father and husband in a driveway all those years ago.

It is a betrayal of all combatants who fought the forces of Apartheid and colonialism and has reduced the Constitutional Court to an instrument that reinforces white-supremacy and disrespects the memory of an icon.

We as the Economic Freedom Fighters will do everything humanly possible to refuse and reject the release of Janusz Walus. We refuse to live alongside Janusz Walus as a free person because he has destroyed a revolutionary, a true Freedom Fighter who would have saved us from white supremacy, oppression, exploitation and domination had he lived.

The ending of our leader Chris Hani destroyed the hopes and aspirations of majority of black people in South Africa and the entire African continent.

In releasing Janusz Walus, the Constitutional Court has demonstrated that it does not care about stability and peace in South Africa because there will never be peace if Janusz Walus is out of prison.

There will be serious consequences and repercussions and the Constitutional Court will take full responsibility over what will happen if Janusz Walus comes of out prison.

The EFF calls on government and the Hani family to apply for rescission of this judgement in terms of rule 42(1)(a) of the Uniform Rules of Court, and, in addition, in terms of the common law, on the basis that there is "good cause" for rescission.

We have been patient and tolerant with too many wrong and irrational decisions taken in the name of fake reconciliation, and now we cannot and will not tolerate this nonsense.

Issued by Sinawo Thambo, National Spokesperson, EFF, 22 November 2022