Limpho Hani has criticised Chief Justice Raymond Zondo for failing to consider her family in handing down the unanimous judgment.
Zondo declared Justice Minister Ronald Lamola’s decision to deny Walus parole in 2020 unconstitutional. The Apex Court ordered that the Polish immigrant be released on parole within 10 days.The murder brought South Africa to the brink of a civil war. An irate Limpho Hani reacted to the decision after she stormed out of the courtroom.
“This country is finished. In this country, a foreign white can come into South Africa, kill my husband. I don’t know if you heard, but Zondo never referred to my family, to myself, to my children, and the trauma and the suffering. He couldn’t be bothered, all of them and Walus has lost all the cases. These ones because in South Africa, they are gods , and what they say goes . I wish them the best. Do you know about karma? Watch the space, all of them. Watch karma, I give them two years.
“In the minister’s decision, he really did take into consideration the nature and the seriousness of the crime, and that’s important because it did have a particular context, and when taking a decision of this nature, you want to ensure that the ramifications of that decision in society as well do not cause some level of uncertainty, and I think that is why the minister took the nature of the crime into consideration.
This was a darkest day in the history of South African justice system JanuszWalus
How will this country move forward if we can't forgive and move on God will judge at the end.