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Premium Archives: RW Johnson – The New South Africa’s original sin, Chris Hani’s assassination (Part 1)
We revisit RW Johnson's profound piece, positing that the assassination of Chris Hani was the original sin of the New South Africa.
This article was first published on 7th December 2022
By RW Johnson*
The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was the original sin of the New South Africa. Hani's death nearly provoked civil war. But it also profoundly changed the political balance within the ANC – and thus the country. Hani, still a handsome young man at 50, was by far the most charismatic figure among the returning exiles, the hero of many of the MK fighters whom he had been drilling down in the Transkei, a man who had caught the imagination not only of the black youth and many ANC activists, but who had also won broad popularity within the movement.
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