Man Behind Killing Of S.Africa Anti-apartheid Hero Dies
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published November 03, 2016 | 08:20 PM
JOHANNESBURG, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 03rd Nov, 2016 ) - A former right-wing politician who provided the gun used to kill black South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani in 1993 has died of lung cancer, media reported Thursday.
Clive Derby-Lewis, 80, was released from prison last year on medical parole after serving 22 years in jail. The former Conservative Party member of parliament was given a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder.
His accomplice, Polish immigrant Janusz Walus, who pulled the trigger, is still in prison after several parole applications.
Hani, a hugely popular leader of the Communist Party, was shot dead on April 10, 1993, one year before South Africa's first multi-racial elections.
The incident sparked protests in black townships and took the country to the brink of a race war. Still in negotiations with the apartheid government over an election date, then-ANC president Nelson Mandela appeared on national television to appeal for calm. Hani's family had opposed Derby-Lewis's early release, saying he had not shown remorse nor disclosed details about the killing.
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