| | On Saturday 24 April 1993, Chris Hani was gunned down by an assassin belonging to the extreme white right wing, the AWB, in the driveway of his home in the northern suburb of Johannesburg. Hani was no ordinary South African. Martin Thembsile 'Chris' Hani was the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress and, until recently, Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe - the military wing of the ANC. The motive could not have been more obvious; by striking at the very heart of the ANC/SCAP alliance, the right wing sought to scupper the negotiations, and most importantly reverse the apartheid time clock. |
