6 April 2004
Before his death there was no election date. His death carved the election date in stone.
This Easter weekend we commemorate the 11th anniversary of Chris Hani's assassination. In the days following his assassination on Easter Saturday in 1993 (10 April), millions of South Africans poured on to the streets of our country in a massive and disciplined demonstration of popular power. On Wednesday, 14th April 1993 and again on Monday 19th April, the day of the funeral, four million workers stayed away. These were the largest stayways in the history of our struggle. In the end, the assassination achieved exactly the opposite outcome from that intended by the killers. Within weeks, an obdurate apartheid government was finally forced to conced a firm election date (April 27) one year hence.
To commemorate this great South African Communist an hero of all our people, the South African Communist Party (SACP) announces the following Chris Hani Memorial Lectures:
1. Johannesburg
2. Durban
3. Ongoye
4. Katlehong
CONTACT
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara (surname Jara)
Head of the Office of the General Secretary
South African Communist Party
Tel - + 27 11 339 3621, Fax - +27 11 339 4244/6880
Cell - +83 651 0271
Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za