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The beauty and burden of democracy is that everyone is equal before the law. This means that the ANC cannot decide that Walus must have a separate law applied to him on the basis of who he killed. If the law is to work, it must remain free from passion and favour.
The book demonstrates that an account of how the opposing parties reached the negotiating table in the first place is indispensable for an understanding of how South Africa broke free from a spiralling war and began the journey to democracy.
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Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
Chris Hani who was assassinated 28 years ago today did not live to see the democratic dispensation emerge in South Africa.
South Africa was thrown into turmoil 28 years ago when struggle icon Chris Hani was assassinated and tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets in mourning and protest.
Hani was assassinated 28 years ago on 10 April 1993 outside his home in Dawnpark, a racially mixed suburb of Boksburg when Polish far-right anti-communist Janusz Waluś shot Hani as he stepped out of his car.
Waluś and Clive Derby-Lewis, a senior South African Conservative Party MP and then Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs, who had loaned Waluś his firearm, were both arrested for Chris Hani’s murder within six months.