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South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him

Posted by The Great Black Discoverer on 5/10/2025, 2:35 am

I know you've heard of Steve Biko, Walter Sisulu, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and Vuyisile Mini who was an Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, and many others including Dimitri Tsafendas the Mulatto who killed the Apartheid president in 1966.

Now the question is have you ever heard of Chris Hani(photo below)?? I've never heard of him til this morning. The assassination of Chris Hani, then leader of the South African "Communist Party" and erstwhile Chief of Staff of UmKhonto we Sizwe(an armed wing of the ANC) on 10th April 1993, was an act that sent shock waves through South Africa, then in an early and fragile stage of its transition to democracy. Chris Hani was also a military commander, a politician and revolutionary.

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Posted by Les on 5/10/2025, 12:53 pm, in reply to "South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

Oh yeah, I met Chris Hani when I was a reporter, back in 1991 — not sure of the exact reason he and his compatriots were in the U.S., at that point.

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Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him

Posted by africanist gm on 5/10/2025, 4:08 pm, in reply to "Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

I'm revoking your revolutionary historian card, Mr Great Black Discoverer!
How could you not have known of the great revolutionary, PanAfricanist, and communist comrade Chris Hani? Shameful!
I have always believed that Chris Hani was the most threatening to the apartheid system and its leaders - he scared the shit out of them!
Not only was he a legit armed revolutionary, Hani was also a brainiac - well-read!

Lots of us still believe that the apartheid system had to kill both Chris Hani & Steve Biko because they were more of a threat than Nelson Mandela. Folks tend to forget that Mandela was a 'moderate' compared to those two, and the apartheid leaders wisely didn't assassinate Mandela, keeping him alive as their last hope to keep white South Africans from losing complete power. In hindsight, the oppressors were right.

..Israel's Mosad also wanted Chris Hani dead! He was a key link between the South African revolutionary armed struggle and Palestine--he was tight with Yasser Arafat & the PLO. Just as there are pictures of Mandela with Arafat, there must be images out there of Hani with Arafat.

LOL...is Mr Maestro around? please tell him very quietly that one of his peeps assassinated Chris Hani. Oh lawwwd!

Oooops....lol

Posted by gm on 5/10/2025, 4:17 pm, in reply to "Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

by "his peeps" I don't mean whites; I mean his family's European lineage..
LOL...a Polish dude killed Chris Hani. Gosh!

Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him

Posted by theone on 5/11/2025, 1:39 am, in reply to "Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

I think I have never heard of him indeed, or maybe I forgot about him. But still I can't believe Les met him back in the day, and equally I can't believe you knew him too Mr G.

. As for Maestro I'm sure he knows the guy who killed Chris Hani,(hahahaha)(

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Actually Chris Hani and Nelson Mandela were buddies (photo below) below President Nelson Mandela leads Umkhonto we Sizwe chief of staff Chris Hani to face the media at Mandela's home back in 1990.

I agree with you, Chris Hani was a big threat to White South Africa and the Western world all together.

I need to check if I can find a picture of Hani with Arafat.

Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him

Posted by theone on 5/11/2025, 1:21 am, in reply to "Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

WOW, I would've never imagined that, Les. Did you interview him during his visit to the U.S?? I suppose you met him in "Chicago" just two years before his assassination.

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Oh yeah, I met Chris Hani when I was a reporter, back in 1991 — not sure of the exact reason he and his compatriots were in the U.S., at that point.

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Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him

Posted by Les on 5/12/2025, 9:30 am, in reply to "Re: South Africa: Remembering Chris Hani,....I Know That NONE Of You Had Ever heard of him"

Yes, it was at a press conference, TheOne. A large contingent of reporters were crowded around him and his associates, and I kind of jostled my way to the front and he pointed me out for my question.

Of course that was a long time ago, not sure what I asked him.

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WOW, I would've never imagined that, Les. Did you interview him during his visit to the U.S?? I suppose you met him in "Chicago" just two years before his assassination.

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Oh yeah, I met Chris Hani when I was a reporter, back in 1991 — not sure of the exact reason he and his compatriots were in the U.S., at that point.

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