Pretoria - The Department of Justice will today know if their application to appeal Chris Hani’s killer’s release will be granted.
Janusz Walus has already spent 23 years - of his life sentence - in prison for murdering the South African Communist Party (SACP) leader outside his Boksburg home, in 1993.
The application comes as the 23rd anniversary of Hani’s assassination was commemorated in Boksburg, on Sunday.
In 2013, the parole board recommended that Walus be released on parole, but Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha turned the recommendation down on the basis of his lack of remorse.
Earlier this month, the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria set aside the Minister’s decision not to grant him parole.
The court set parole conditions within 14 days from the date of judgment.
However, last month the department said Minister Masutha’s legal representatives have filed and served a notice of application for leave to appeal against the judgment with the registrar of the High Court.
“The Minister believes that the Honourable Court erred in its judgment and is of the view that there are prospects of success on appeal and that the Appeal Court will arrive at a different conclusion,” the department said at the time.
Walus’s co-conspirator, Clive Derby-Lewis, was released on medical parole in June, last year. – SAnews.gov.za
