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Independent On Line, April 17 2007 at 04:18PM
=Walus street 'an insult' to SA=

A proposal to rename a street in the Polish city of Radom after Janusz Walus, the jailed killer of former SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani, is an insult to all South Africans, the Young Communist League (YCLSA) said on Tuesday.

It was reacting to a report in a London newspaper that a campaigner in Radom in central Poland has called on the city council to rename the street after Walus.

Polish-born Walus is currently serving a life sentence in South Africa for gunning down Hani in 1993, an assassination that shocked the country and came close to derailing negotiations on democracy at the time.

"[This] rightwing campaign to change the name of the street is an insult to the world left forces, the citizens of Poland, and South Africans in particular.

"As the YCLSA, we are strongly calling for the community of Radom City and Poland in particular to strongly desist and reject [it]," the YCLSA said in a statement.

The report in the London daily, the Morning Star, describes the renaming proposal as "deranged". - Sapa


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