MZANSI REMEMBERS THEMBISILE CHRIS HANI!

Today marks 25 years since the leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Thembisile Chris Hani was assassinated. 

Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993 outside his home in Dawn Park, east of Johannesburg a Polish far-right extremist Janusz Walus.

Walus previously held a dual Polish-South African citizenship from 1986 to 2017 when his South African citizenship was revoked.

He is currently serving a life sentence for the assassination of Chris Hani.

Meanwhile, in honour of Hani, the New Science Lecture Theatre at the University of Cape Town (UCT) will be renamed after him.

The theatre will be named the Chris Hani Lecture Theatre in honour of Hani's contribution to South Africa's democracy.

In 1990, after the unbanning of the African National Party (ANC) and SACP, Hani returned to South Africa from exile and became a popular political figure in townships.

He was close his associate the General-Secretary of the SACP Joe Slovo.

They were considered to have instilled fear in South Africa's extreme right, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbewging (AWB), the Afrikaner Resistance Movement and the Conservative Party (CP).

At the time Hani was the only political leader who appeared to have influence over the radical township self-defence groups that had fractions from the authority of the ANC.