Janusz Walus application to be released on parole based on "exceptional circumstances" dismissed with costs
26 April 2016
The North Gauteng High Court today delivered judgement dismissing Janusz Walus' application to be released from prison based on "exceptional circumstances" without appeal processes against his parole first exhausted. Walus claimed that he would suffer irreparable harm if he was not released. The SACP opposed Walus' application and exposed the disguises in which it was dressed as well as the pretensions that he has been making, all a ploy simply to be released from prison and nothing else.
The SACP will continue to seek full disclosure of the truth and complete justice on the murder of Comrade Chris Hani, our General Secretary, a member of the ANC national executive committee and former Chief of Staff of uMkhoto we Sizwe. This requires all legal avenues to be exhausted, especially if there are grounds for successful appeals.
Further, the Central Committee will next month also discuss the call previously made by the Party to reopen investigations into the murder of Hani through an official inquest. The decision to be taken will be announced publicly at the end of the meeting.
The murder of Hani pushed our country to brink of civil war. The murder was calculated to plunge our country into full-blown civil war, and could not have been the product of two individuals only, Walus and his accomplice Clive Derby-Lewis.