The South African Communist Party is to call for the official inquest into the assassination of its former general secretary‚ Chris Hani‚ to be reopened. It said on Friday that a proposal to campaign for the reopening of the inquest had been endorsed at a two-day meeting of the party’s Augmented Central Committee. “The SACP will consult with the Hani family and explore a legal route to follow in this regard. We will also campaign through political action‚ and our 2017 commemoration of Comrade Hani’s assassination will be dedicated to demanding the inquest.” The SACP added that it would also continue to oppose parole for Hani’s convicted killer‚ Janusz Waluś. “We believe that he and his convicted late co-conspirator Clive Derby-Lewis did not make a full disclosure of the circumstances surrounding the assassination. “The SACP noted the recent contradictions between Waluś’ position and the so-called Derby-Lewis disclosure released posthumously. Derby-Lewis died an unrehabilitated convi...
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