The South African constitutional court granted parole to the Polish right-winger who shot #ChrisHani after 30 yrs. (When I was a foreign student in my 20s in Cape Town the first political event I attented was in presence of Hanis daugther). Soon after bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
the murder of Hani South Africa was at the brink of civil war with collapse of the peace talks between Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC (as the Apartheid forces had hoped) and brutal cleavage in townships. Until this day there are accusations from within the ANC that forces within
ANC were complicit in murdering Hani (while sometimes these allegations are also part of the power struggle from people close to Zuma who were themselves involved in high level corruption). Chris Hani - the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe was opposed to some of the elements of the
peaceful transistion which laid seeds for todays faulty economy in South Africa with a tiny elite filling its pockets while inequality has even increased since Apartheid. Hani would be angry at what the ANC became and how millions of South Africans were left behind. Now the
monument of Hani has been vandalized. And while South Africa is one of the greatest places on earth the social emergency and the lack of political hope can set the country on fire anytime.
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