Limpho Hani, the widow of assassinated South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani, on Friday slammed a documentary about Clive Derby-Lewis, one of the killers of her husband.
The documentary, which was based on a September 2, interview – shortly before Derby-Lewis died – gave the former right-wing politician an opportunity to explain why he wanted Hani killed.
Derby-Lewis, who nearly sparked a full-blown race war on the eve of South Africa’s first all-race elections, died on November 3, after a long battle with lung cancer.
The 80-year-old who was released on medical parole last year after serving 22 years in jail, supplied the gun Janusz Walus used to kill Hani.
Derby-Lewis confessed his role in the assassination in his application to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty. He said that he was acting “in defense of my people, who were threatened with a Communist take-over.”
In the documentary, Derby-Lewis described Hani as a hardcore communist who could not be controlled.
He claimed he never told Walusz to kill Hani but “I suggested we should take out a well-known profile figure. As far as I was concerned, it was a political objective,” he said.
Hani’s widow who has never forgiven either of the men, said she was “repulsed” by the documentary.
Source PANA
