Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani’s assassin, Janusz Waluś, was stabbed in Pretoria Central Prison ahead of his release on parole on Tuesday afternoon, the SA department of correctional services announced. He is recovering in the prison’s hospital, according to a press statement. Waluś was stabbed by an inmate and fellow-former soldier for the SA National Defence Force, it is said the two had a previous grudge involving the murder of another colleague.
A radical right-wing Polish immigrant at that time, Janusz Waluś was convicted of murder for the assassination of the anti-apartheid struggle activist Chris Hani on 10 April 1993. Together with accomplice Clive Derby-Lewis, he was sentenced to death and later commuted to life in prison.
After 29 years in prison, the Constitutional Court of South Africa overturned the decision to deny Waluś parole in November with the judge ruling out that though his crimes were serious and deliberate, Waluś had met the conditions for parole.
