After listening to submissions from the ministry’s legal counsel, headed by advocate Marumo Moerane SC, and all other respondents, Justice Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen said she needed until Thursday to prepare and deliver her judgement in the matter.
Hani was shot and killed by Walus on Easter Sunday, 10 April, 1993. Walus was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in October 1993, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Walus’s application to be released on parole was initially turned down by Masutha, after which he sought the intervention of the high court to make a ruling for him to be released on parole.
His erstwhile co-accused Clive Derby-Lewis, who was also given a life sentence, was released on medical parole last year.
