This year, on April 10th, we commemorated the 30th martyrdom anniversary of the assassination of Chris Hani. His life story and death was as intriguing as the
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.
WREATHS are to be laid at a ceremony tomorrow to mark the 28th anniversary of the murder of South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Chris Hani.
Current SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) deputy president Louise Thipe will pay tribute to Mr Hani at the memorial event at Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park, east of Johannesburg.
Communists continue to demand the truth about Mr Hani’s murder on April 10 1993, insisting that those convicted of the crime, former South African Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, were not the only people involved in the assassination.