By: Sello Theletsane
Chris Hani was not only assassinated by two individual right wingers, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus acting in isolation. According to Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veteran’s Association (MKMVA), Hani’s assassination was “a much bigger, and intricate, carefully worked out assassination plot” involving very senior leaders within the national democratic revolution. In its response to the Constitutional court’s ruling that set Walus free, MKMVA it was angered and distraught by “the utterly callous decision of the Constitutional Court (CC), as announced by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, that Janusz Walus, the murderer of Comrade Chris Hani, must be released on parole by the Department of Correctional Services” .
“Never in our wildest dreams have we imagined that such a despicable and callous judgement will be pronounced by a fellow South African judge of our democratic dispensation, who is actually supposed to protect the rights and dignity of our nation.
What Chief Justice Zondo did yesterday, to try and justify the ultimate betrayal of comrade Chris Hani with the weak, and sugar coated, platitude that in this fundamentally racist, exploitative, and unequal society of ours, all must regardless be treated ‘as equal before the law’, is truly unconscionable and evil.”
“Walus was attempting to stop South Africa from attaining freedom/democracy, therefore he should not now benefit from it, nor it’s laws. With one foul stroke of his fountain pen, filled with the blood of our people, Justice Zondo denied all the centuries of racist and colonial economic exploitation.”
“Yesterday’s judgement was truly diabolical, and it confirms the view that the Constitutional Court has been captured, and is being used to dismantle the whole liberation project. If there ever was evidence that it is time to review our entire legal system, there is no need to look further than this dastardly sell out judgement. It is anti-black and anti-liberation. For far too long there has been a conspiracy of silence about the assassination of comrade Chris Hani.”
“As MKMVA we have no doubt that whatsoever that comrade Chris Hani was not only assassinated by two individual right wingers – Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus – acting in isolation. No! It was indeed a much bigger, and intricate, carefully worked out assassination plot. We know in our hearts of hearts the very senior leaders within the National Democratic Revolution were intimately involved in the formulation and execution of that evil plan.”
MKMVA said Hani spoke out against the sell out arrangements that were negotiated at CODESA.
“He felt compelled to speak and warn our people of the great criminal betrayal that was being perpetrated against them. It was exactly because of his principled refusal not to remain quiet, and not to become complicit, that comrade Chris had to be killed. He became too dangerous, not only to leaders of White Monopoly Capitalism (WMC), but he also became a huge threat to the sell outs within the ranks of our beloved Liberation”
