Janusz Walus – not my hero

After nearly 30 years, the celebrated killer Chris Hani Janusz Walus was deported from South Africa to Poland. This was accompanied by the media sound and unhealthy emotions of any groups and politicians.

For example, Grzegorz Braun personally welcomed Janusz Walus at Chopin airport in Warsaw, and in virtual form did so on the portal X MP PiS Dariusz Matecki. On the Krakow website of the All-Polish Youth there was a comment: “Welcome home, brother”, and on the website “nationalist.pl” was named Walus “the last Soldier of the Curse”. Interestingly, editor Krzysztof Stanowski announced an interview with Walus on Channel Zero, which has not yet been achieved.

It is profoundly incomprehensible for me to treat Walus like a national hero and rise the peans in his honor. What did Janusz Walus do for Poland? In fact, he spent most of his life in South Africa where he went for profit in 1981. Walus lived comfortably in South Africa until he was imprisoned, where he and his household ran a glassworks and then worked as a driver. I do not say that at this time he will care about the destiny of Poland and Poles. In 1986, Walus accepted South African citizenship and became politically associated with the African opposition Movement. The planet heard of him in April 1993 erstwhile he killed South African Communist organization leader Chris Hani. No substance what motives led by Janusz Walus, from whose inspiration he carried out the killing and what interests he carried out – he played his own political game, acting only on his own account. Let us not delegate to him patriotic motives connected with Poland.

There are claims that Walus was a militant fighting communism in South Africa. You got to be kidding me. Chris Hani was indeed the leader of the South African Communist organization and an activist of the African National legislature (ANC) armed wing, but he was not the 1 who dealt the cards and did not pull the strings. The future has shown that the abolition of apartheid has directed South Africa not on the way of communism, but on the demolibrary system. Communist slogans accompanying political transformation in South Africa did not translate into reality. Even assuming that Janusz Walus, guided by ideological motivations and wanted to halt the course of history, Hani's assassination only accelerated the process of liquidation of apartheid. I am starting from the fact that Janusz Walus as an immigrant from Poland should not interfere in the interior affairs of South Africa and in the situation of the indigenous people of this country.

Although the government in South Africa at the time of apartheid cannot be compared to the criminal government in the 3rd Reich, or even the strategy that is now taking place in Israel, there is no uncertainty that the indigenous African population was clearly discriminated against there. It was not racial separatism in the sense of separating different races and cultures, respecting their differentities, but racial segregation for better and worse. Bantustany served as a kind of black population reserve, with somewhat more autonomy than with Indian reserves in the US. The problem is that Africans were not indigenous to South Africa. So can apartheid explanation be defended from a nationalistic point of view?

In 1993, erstwhile I was 20, Janusz Walus impressed me. I considered him a man of honor, courage, and ideas. Furthermore, I supported apartheid by denying African people the right to self-determination in their own country. This was the same mistake and absurdity as denying the right to self-determine another nations in the era of colonialism. Contrary to many announcements, South Africa did not fall after the abolition of apartheid, being a dynamically developing country associated with the prospective BRICS group.

Michał Radzikowski