S. Africa: White supremacist stripped of citizenship

By Hassan Isilow JOHANNESBURG (AA) - The South African government has revoked the citizenship of a white supremacist who killed Chris Hani, a prominent anti-apartheid activist in 1993.According to local media reports, the lawyer of Janusz Walus said late Monday that his client had been stripped of his citizenship.He made the revelation speaking at the Supreme Court of Appeals in the central city of Bloemfontein, where judges will decide if Walus should be freed on parole.Walus gunned down Hani outside his home in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, in April 1993.Hani was leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP), a close partner of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).Last year the High Court in Pretoria ruled that Walus should be released on parole after serving 22 years in prison. But Justice Minister Michael Masutha appealed the High Court’s decision granting Walus parole.Members of the Communist Party demonstrated outside the court in support of the minister’s appeal against Walus’s parole.Walus, who migrated from Poland to South Africa in 1981, was a supporter of South Africa’s far-right and of apartheid. If granted parole, he will be deported back to Poland.Officials from the South African Department of Home Affairs were not willing to comment.