Friday 22 April 2016 21:22
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Janus Waluz was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing struggle veteran and SACP general secretary, Chris Hani in 1993.(SABC)
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the North West says it will intensify its programme of action to force the withdrawal of Janus Waluz's parole.
Waluz was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing struggle veteran and SACP general secretary, Chris Hani in 1993.
The application for leave to appeal the ruling by Justice Minister Michael Masutha has been dismissed by Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen.
The SACP and its alliance partners are on a relentless campaign marched to the Department of Justice to hand over a memorandum calling for the scrapping of Walus's parole.
The SACP in the North West maintains Waluz did not show remorse for his actions. It claims he acted on the instructions of his superiors.
SACP provincial secretary Madoda Samabatha says, “Chris was mercilessly killed in front of his house. A judge in the South African new dispensation is telling a wife to just forget … she must go to hell.”
The SACP insists it will embark on rolling-mass actions to achieve its goal.
The Department of Justice says it will take the memorandum to relevant authorities.