APA-Pretoria (South Africa) The South African government should open an inquest into the assassination of the late South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary general Chris Hani to get to the bottom of circumstances surrounding his killing 30 years ago, a senior party official has said.
Polish-born Janusz Walus was convicted for Hani’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment where he served for 28 years before being released on parole last December.
SACP Central Committee member Tinyiko Ntini said on Tuesday that “Walus was a trigger man and an assassin.”
“Clearly, he was just the person who pulled the trigger and that’s our conviction,” Ntini said.
He said the inquest would enable South Africans to get the details of all the people who planned the crime.
“That’s why we are intensifying our call for the inquest to be opened into the death of Comrade Chris Hani,” Ntini said.
The demand for the inquest comes as the party prepares to mark Hani’s brutal killing outside his Johannesburg home on 10 April 1993 – just a year before South African held its first democratic elections.
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