On 10 April 1993,Thembisile Chris Hani was shot and killed as he returned home to the racially mixed suburb of Dawn Park, Boksberg (Johannesburg), Hani was assassinated by Januzs Walus, an anti-Communist Polish refugee who had close links to the White nationalist AWB. With him was his daughter, Nomakhwezi, then 15 years old. His wife, Limpho, and two other daughters, Neo (then 20 years old) and Lindiwe (then 12 years old) were away at the time. Also implicated in the assassination was Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, and strangely a theory based largely on documents given to the Mail & Guardian point to a conspiracy beyond the right wing, linking the assassination to the ANC.
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10 April 1993
Thembisile Chris Hani is killed
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- 9 Apr 2020
Chris Hani
How we know this
- 01L.S.A. Togni. The new dictionary of South Africa biography Volume 2. Vista University, Pretoria, 1999.
- 02Peter Joyce. A concise Dictionary of South African biography. Franklin
- 03Hani, C. 1991. My Life: An autobiography written in 1991, from the South African Communist Party, [online], Available at www.sacp.org.za [Accessed 28 October 2009]
- 04Shelagh Gastrow. Who's who in South African politics Volume 4. Raven Press, South Africa, 1992. pg 91.
- 05Boddy-Evans, A. (Unknown). Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani. South African political activist who was assassinated in April 1993 [Online], Available at: africanhistory.about.com [Accessed 28 October 2009]
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