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Various programmes to commemorate 24th anniversary of Chris Hani’s death

FILE PICTURE: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - 1990: Chris Hani addresses a rally at the Grand Parade, Cape Town. (Photo by Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive).
FILE PICTURE: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - 1990: Chris Hani addresses a rally at the Grand Parade, Cape Town. (Photo by Gallo Images/Oryx Media Archive).

Various programmes have been planned by the City of Ekurhuleni to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the assassination of struggle icon Chris Hani‚ starting with a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday morning which will be led by President Jacob Zuma.

Hani‚ who was the general secretary of the South African Communist Party‚ was slain on the 10th April 1993 outside his home in Dawn Park‚ Boksburg‚ on the East Rand.

The wreath-laying ceremony will be held at Thomas Nkobi Memorial Park in Boksburg. It will be followed in the evening by a memorial lecture at the Boksburg Civic Centre‚ which will be delivered by newly-appointed finance minister Malusi Gigaba.

The city said it would also roll out a number of other programmes in Hani’s memory.

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