Janusz Waluś stabbed by prison inmate: 'He was stabbed in his section of the prison. The guy who stabbed him is a former soldier who is also a lifer like Waluś,' the insider said.
Chris Hani's killer Janusz Waluś was stabbed in prison just before 5pm on Tuesday.The extent of his injury is not yet known but according to those inside Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in Tshwane, Walus was rushed to a hospital within the prison.
"He was stabbed in his section of the prison. The guy who stabbed him is a former soldier who is also a lifer like Waluś," the insider said. Waluś, who was convicted of life imprisonment for the assassination of the anti-apartheid Struggle activist Chris Hani, had told prison insiders he was expected to be released on Thursday.Waluś would not be deported, saying he had been granted an exemption to serve out his parole in SA.
The insider continued:"The guy who stabbed Waluś is a former soldier for the SA National Defence Force but has a political history because when we had a family and we wanted to support him in his ConCourt case, the guy was opposed to it. He said Waluś killed his comrade.A second insider, a warden, confirmed that Waluś was stabbed while a third insider, also a warden, corroborated the others, saying that extra security had been deployed to the central Pretoria prison.
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