Parole Off The Table for South African Leader Chris Hani's Killer

Janusz Walus, a Polish immigrant who conspired with a Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis to kill South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani in 1993, was sentenced to death for the murder in October 1993. Their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in November 2000. Derby-Lewis was granted parole on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died at home at the age of 80. Walus's application for parole has been denied by Justice Minister Michael Masutha.

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