Janusz Walus has been rehabilitated and there is no evidence to show otherwise, his lawyer says
The man who killed Chris Hani in 1993 is applying for parole for the third time, after being denied most recently in November 2017
Lawyers for Janusz Walus — the killer of former SACP leader Chris Hani — have raised questions about unfair political interference in their client’s parole applications. Walus‚ with the assistance of former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis‚ shot and killed Hani in 1993 in the driveway of his home in Boksburg‚ east of Johannesburg. Walus launched his third application for parole on Tuesday in the High Court in Pretoria. Advocate Roelof du Plessis disclosed how certain documents and parole board reports were ignored by justice minister Michael Masutha in Walus’s previous parole applications. "One needs to look at what was before the minister and what he did and did not look at‚" he said. He said in August 2017 the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered that Masutha reconsider parole for Walus. Masutha denied Walus parole in November. "Documents from the parole board showed Walus was a suitable candidate for parole‚" Du Plessis told the court. "Everyone on the board said he was suitabl...
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