Ewa Walus: Breaking ties with a racist past and her father's shadow

15 days ago

Iviwe Mzandisi

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Chris Hani's killer, Janusz Walus. (Oryx Media Archive/Gallo Images)

Ewa Walus, the daughter of convicted hitman Janusz Walus, says she regrets having aligned with right-wing groups to raise funds for her father's court case.

"Sometimes I think I was wrong. It had a huge influence on my image. Then, people thought about me just like my father, [they thought] I shared his views, opinions, but ultimately, I was the opposite," she said in an interview with eNCA's Annika Larsen on talk show My Guest Tonight.

She was speaking to Larsen while visiting South Africa in support of negotiations over the potential deportation of her father to live out the rest of his life.

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