Remembering Hani 28 years on

YESTERDAY, April 10, marked 28 years since the cold-blooded assassination of Thembisile “Chris” Hani.

Thembisile adopted the name “Chris” from his younger brother, Nkosana Christopher Hani. Hani and his two brothers were raised in the rural Eastern Cape’s Sabalele village by their parents, Gilbert “Dafulane” and Nomayisi Nomtikodwa Mary Hani.

I pen this piece with a very heavy heart, not yet sure whether it might be one of those pieces of writing I start but later abandon.

Imagine us, the family, listening to Radio Xhosa in rural Sabalele on the