South Africa will once again pay homage to one of its struggle heroes, former South African Communist Party General Secretary and Mkhonto We Siwe commander, Thembisile Chris Hani. Dubbed as one of the most outstanding militants of the armed struggle, Hani was gunned down on 10 April 1993 outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg. Polish immigrant, Janusz Walus, shot Hani in the head just as he stepped out of his car. The assassination, at the hands of apartheid oppressors, was part of a plot by the far-right in South Africa to derail the negotiations to end the racial regime, with late convicted killer, Clive Derby-Lewis, at the helm. Walus and Derby-Lewis were both sentenced to death for the murder, but the sentence was later changed to life imprisonment when the death penalty was abolished when the new Constitution was adopted in 1995. To help us discuss this historical occasion we are joined on the line by:
Mbhazima Shilowa: A South African politician and served as Premier of Gauteng province while a and is a Co-Founder of the Congress of the People and previously served as Deputy President of COPE.
Professor Andre Duwenhage , a political analyst
