The South African Communist Party is to call for the official inquest into the assassination of its former general secretary‚ Chris Hani‚ to be reopened.

It said on Friday that a proposal to campaign for the reopening of the inquest had been endorsed at a two-day meeting of the party’s Augmented Central Committee.

“The SACP will consult with the Hani family and explore a legal route to follow in this regard. We will also campaign through political action‚ and our 2017 commemoration of Comrade Hani’s assassination will be dedicated to demanding the inquest.”

The SACP added that it would also continue to oppose parole for Hani’s convicted killer‚ Janusz Walus.

“We believe that he and his convicted late co-conspirator Clive Derby-Lewis did not make a full disclosure of the circumstances surrounding the assassination.

“The SACP noted the recent contradictions between Walus’ position and the so-called Derby-Lewis disclosure released posthumously. Derby-Lewis died an unrehabilitated convicted murderer who believed apartheid was the right policy for South Africa and that Comrade Hani had to be killed‚” the SACP said.

Clive Derby-Lewis‚ who supplied the gun Walus used to kill Hani‚ died last month at the age of 80 after a long battle with lung cancer.

He was released on medical parole last year after doctors found that he already had stage 4 cancer. He had been serving a life prison sentence.