The assassination of struggle hero Chris Hani was no ordinary murder, and nearly plunged the country into a civil war that would have further postponed the emancipation of the African in this country. On the morning of April 10 1993, a white man of Polish origin Janusz Waluś accosted Hani in the driveway of his Boksburg, East Rand, home and shot him dead.

It was a treasonous deed that deeply wounded a nation on the cusp of much-anticipated freedom. It robbed the nation of a capable leader who no doubt was destined to shape its future. Such was the stature and power of Martin Thembekile “Chris” Hani that indeed even in death he shaped the way and his legacy would never be buried and forgotten...