Breaking news: Parole refused to Chris Hani's killer

Not so much breaking news as it is obvious news.
 
iDenTiTy said:
Um,

Because he's white?

It obvious. He killed a much loved black person..

This whole saga smells of racism.
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He does not qualify for parole.
It does have advantages if you are linked to people in high places though.;)

As with most whites with their butts exposed to the wind.....
Sorry mate you on your own...the whites in this country do not stand together.

Better luck next time.:cool:
 
I personally don't think murderers should ever be eligible for parole, however the double standards applied in this case are astounding (although not at all surprising)
 
Albereth said:
I think he should catch a cold and he'll be back at home within half an hour.
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LOL - so true.

"Excuse me warden I have a cold, can I go home please. Theres is to much of a draft in this cell."
 
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Balstrome said:
I wonder what effect Chris Hani, would have had on South Africa and it's economy, if he had not been killed.
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He was Communist Party Chief.

It does sound like a political decision. This man has served his sentence and is very much eligible for parole. On the eve of an election, I had no doubt the government would not release him.
 
Balstrome said:
I wonder what effect Chris Hani, would have had on South Africa and it's economy, if he had not been killed.
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You know of course that it was strongly suspected that Hani was heavily involved in the suppression of a mutiny by unhappy ANC members in detention camps including torture and murder... all denied and swept under the rug of course.

I reckon we'd be way closer to being a communist state if he was still around
 
For those not familiar with the Hani assassination and the the brink to which it brought the country -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hani

Chris Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993 outside his home in Dawn Park, a racially-mixed suburb of Boksburg. He was accosted by a Polish far-right immigrant named Janusz Waluś, who shot him in the head as he stepped out of his car. Waluś fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards after Hani's neighbour, a white woman, called the police. Clive Derby-Lewis, a senior South African Conservative Party M.P., who had lent Waluś his pistol, was also arrested for complicity in Hani's murder.

Hani's assassination was part of a plot by the far-right in South Africa to derail the negotiations to end apartheid. An alleged hit list of senior ANC and SACP figures found in the Derby-Lewis home included Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at numbers one and two. Hani was number three on the list.

Historically, the assassination is seen as a turning point. Serious tensions followed the assassination, with fears that the country would erupt in violence. Nelson Mandela addressed the nation appealing for calm, in a speech regarded as 'presidential' even though he was not yet president of the country:

“ Tonight I am reaching out to every single South African, black and white, from the very depths of my being. A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice, this assassin. The cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani has sent shock waves throughout the country and the world. ... Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for – the freedom of all of us. ”

While riots did follow the assassination, the two sides of the negotiation process were galvanised into action, and they soon agreed that democratic elections should take place on 27 April 1994, just over a year after Hani's assassination.
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Hoof-Hearted said:
You know of course that it was strongly suspected that Hani was heavily involved in the suppression of a mutiny by unhappy ANC members in detention camps including torture and murder... all denied and swept under the rug of course.

I reckon we'd be way closer to being a communist state if he was still around
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In the early 1990s the battle for the soul of the ANC came down to who would be Mandela’s deputy president. There were three contenders—Thabo Mbeki, the (centrist) social democrat returned-exile; Chris Hani, the far-left communist leader of the military wing; or Cyril Ramaphosa, the COSATU trade unionist who represented the internal (COSATU and UDF) constituency. Although Ramaphosa’s personal political views differed little from Mbeki’s centrist-position, Ramaphosa came to be associated with the ANC-left (a constituency with COSATU at its heart), while Mbeki came to be associated with the ANC-right (a constituency with the Africanists at its heart).

After Hani’s assassination in 1993, it came down to Mbeki or Ramaphosa. Local and foreign capitalists, western governments and the white South African government all preferred the suave diplomatic Mbeki. But in the early 1990s the left was dominant within the ANC, and at the 1991 ANC conference the Mbeki/Zuma centrist grouping was defeated. And so it was that Ramaphosa, not Mbeki, led the ANC to the constitutional negotiations. But Mbeki learned from this defeat, and began working on his come-back by building new alliances.

Effectively, Mbeki the social democrat learned to play the Africanist card, and built alliances with three important populist politicians—the ANC Youth League’s Peter Mokaba, famed for his ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer’ chant at a 1993 rally; Winnie Mandela, whose power-base straddled the ANC Women’s League and SANCO (the civics organisation); and Bantu Holomisa. Holomisa, who had served the apartheid regime as both a general and as the leader of a black homeland before switching sides to the ANC in 1990, and who brought with him a large Xhosa constituency, which guaranteed the ANC electoral dominance in the Eastern Cape province. Mbeki outmanoeuvred Ramaphosa so that when the time came to select a deputy president only Mandela supported Ramaphosa.

Having been defeated by Mbeki, Ramaphosa withdrew from politics to become one of many ANC politicians to switch to business. In his new role of business mogul, Ramaphosa has become one of the country’s wealthiest men and a powerful advocate of BEE.

http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2008/04/louw.html
 
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