90s20. ‘Who killed Chris Hani?’

Chris Hani was the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief of staff of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. His assassination on 10 April 1993 by a far-right Polish immigrant threatened to derail negotiations for a democratic constitution. Negotiations were resumed Nelson Mandela appealed for calm. Two men were later convicted of Hani’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.