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In the days leading up to the “democratic” (ie multiracial) South African elections of 1994 dozens of explosions rocked numerous locations across South Africa (including Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg). A total of 21 people were killed and 176 injured in the AWB’s pre-election bombing campaign.
In the days leading up to the “democratic” (ie multiracial) South African elections of 1994 dozens of explosions rocked numerous locations across South Africa (including Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg). A total of 21 people were killed and 176 injured in the AWB’s pre-election bombing campaign.
==Assasination of Chris Hani==
On Saturday April 10 1993 Christopher Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and Umkhonto We Sizwe leader (Umkhonto We Sizwe was the ANC's armed wing) was gunned down in the driveway of his Boksburg, Transvaal, home. The gunman was [[Polish]] anti-communist zealot and AWB member Janusz Walus.
Walus had been provided with a list of names and addresses of leading leftwingers (including Hani, [[Nelson Mandela|Mandela]] and President FW DeKlerk) and was preparing to kill them.
Walus pulled up outside Hani's home and called his name, Hani turned around, Waluz shot him once before walking to his body and shooting him again. Hani's neighbour, Retha Harmse, noted down what she thought was the killer's license plate (it was wrong by one character).
Police on patrol in Boksburg city centre noticed Walus's car fitted the description, they pulled him over and found a pistol and silencer in the vehicle (a red Ford Laser).
Initially Walus denied that he was the killer and said he didn't know how the pistol or silencer came to be in his possession, he made a confidential confession to a policeman he assumed as a right-wing, it turned out that the policeman was not an ally of Walus' and as such he told the investigating officer that Walus had confessed.
Waluz implicated one man, Clive Derby-Lewis, a Conservative Party councillor. Derby-Lewis had arranged for the silencer to be fitted to a gun and then given it to Waluz, as well as obtaining Hani's address. Derby-Lewis' wife gave him Hani's address, she had obtained it from Arthur Kemp [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Politics&set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20080410054544212C223121](who authored a book on the AWB) who was at that time a journalist for The Citizen paper. However Kemp was a former Sergeant in the Security Branch of the police and allegedly used this privelege to obtain the list of addresses.
Waluz and Derby-Lewis were jailed for life (they may be paroled in 2010), while Arthur Kemp denied knowledge of helping to organise the murder, he claimed that he had given the list of addresses to Clive Derby-Lewis' wife without knowledge of why she wanted them.
The murder of Hani, arguably the second most popular Black South African politician, sparked mass riots. An AWB armed contingent was deployed in some towns to defend the White areas of the town from rioting mobs of ANC supporters.
The ANC rioters killed two Whites, one of whom was, coincidentally, an AWB member.
In 2007 a street in the Polish town of Radom was renamed after Janusz Walus in honour of his execution of communist Chris Hani.[http://domza.blogspot.com/2007/04/poles-to-name-street-after-janusz-walus.html]
==In the New South Africa==
==In the New South Africa==