@ChrisExcel102 Lol funny statement but not serious enough to cause much drama. The president said we are one south africa so you must then be a foreigner right?
@karynmaughan Are you like being paid to lie and spread false news? Dammit I would rather resign than knowing I'm incompetent and don't add value, you are a sick sick person
@ChrisExcel102 Lol funny statement but not serious enough to cause much drama. The president said we are one south africa so you must then be a foreigner right?
@karynmaughan Are you like being paid to lie and spread false news? Dammit I would rather resign than knowing I'm incompetent and don't add value, you are a sick sick person
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Waluś gives his first interview after returning to Poland
Today, Janusz Walus gave his first interview since returning to Poland, following the completion of two years on parole after being released from prison, where he served nearly 30 years of a life sentence and makes an explosive allegation.
Michał Zichlarz
He spoke to Michał Zichlarz, a prominent Polish sports journalist who authored the book Zabić Haniego - Historia Janusza Walusia. II wydanie (Kill Hani - The Story of Janusz Waluś. Second Edition).
I met with Michał Zichlarz when I returned to Poland four months ago to continue my research into Waluś, the man behind one of the defining events in South Africa's history. Michał had previously travelled to South Africa during the Soccer World Cup in 2010 to cover the event, during which time he met Walus at C-Max prison in Pretoria and conducted an interview with him.
For a few months after Walus’s release on parole, I had been probing into the details of what happened and whether there was more to learn about an assassination that we had been told for 30 years was solely a right-wing racist plot to kill the leader of the South African Communist Party and ignite a civil war.
A man named Mike
My inquiries and various emails must have kicked up some dust, because it led to a phone call from someone with a distinct Southern American accent. He suggested that there was more to the plot behind Hani’s assassination, that it was more complex, and that I needed to expand my search—look beyond the obvious, consider the top leadership in the ANC, and even look outside the country.
Naturally, he was deliberately vague and initially I disregarded it as a potential hoax, placing little value in the content of the call. However, I decided to dig a little deeper none the less.
His advice, if you could call it that, had a far more tangible and unsettling outcome when I began drafting emails to various security agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), MI6 and the Polish Foreign Intelligence Agency.
Shortly after the assassination and in pursuit of greater transparency, the South African authorities had enlisted the help of the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad. Two senior officers were dispatched to oversee the investigation into Chris Hani’s assassination.
Freedom of Information
On the 25 October, 2023, I submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) seeking access to the investigation dockets related to Hani's murder.
Despite their commitment to respond within two weeks, I received a response on 8 December. Unfortunately, my request for access to the docket was "denied," citing Section 23(5) of the Act, which pertains to information supplied by or concerning certain security bodies and is deemed "highly classified.”
I replied, asking why a murder that was nearly 30 years old—one that we had been repeatedly told was simply a racist right-wing plot to incite civil unrest in South Africa, with one perpetrator caught within hours and the other a week later—was still classified at such a high level.
The response I received was that the classification had been ordered by MI6 (British Intelligence Services). In my view, there could only be one reason for MI6 to classify a murder, and that was the potential existence of evidence in the file linking either MI6 or other intelligence agencies to the plot or the event.
Hani, head of the SACP
In 1991, Hani left the ANC to become Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party. In 1993, shortly before his assassination, Hani gave an interview to a room full of foreign journalists, which appeared in the press both locally and internationally.
He announced that he was contemplating joining trade unionists and other left-wing parties to establish a socialist alliance and challenge the ANC during the 1994 elections. The Sunday Times in London reported on this, and although Hani later retracted the statement, claiming a misunderstanding, there is speculation that the ANC forced him to retract it.
Waluś exposes other forces
I asked Michał if there were any revelations in Walus’s interview today that differed from his statements over the past ten years. According to Zichlarz, Waluś stated that he was naïve and overestimated Clive Derby-Lewis’s broader political influence, which supports my longstanding contention that Waluś was merely a patsy.
Waluś confirmed that he had fully cooperated with the Intelligence Services of South Africa and then went onto reveal that he was not the only one recruited to assassinate Hani. He mentioned that, had he failed, there were possibly others from Serbia or Croatia ready to take his place.
If what Waluś is saying about others being approached as a form of insurance to ensure Hani's assassination, is true, it somewhat confirms the conclusions I reached in my book.
This perspective would also align with broader geopolitical dynamics in the early 1990s, when many Western nations and corporations were wary of communism and leftist movements in Africa. The involvement of international players, including operatives from countries such as Serbia or Croatia, suggests a network that was aware of the stakes and willing to act decisively to safeguard those interests.
The potential that this new information corroborates my conclusions, offers a more complex and nuanced view of the forces behind Hani’s assassination. It paints a picture of the event as not merely an isolated political act, but potentially a calculated manoeuvre in a wider, global struggle over the future of South Africa and its political orientation.
#JanuszWalus #Hani #Walus
Michał Zichlarz interviews Janusz Waluś