JOHANNESBURG – The 10th of April marks 32 years since Chris Hani’s assassination.
The SACP General Secretary was shot dead in 1993, in the driveway of his Boksburg home.
It was an act that nearly plunged the country into a civil war.
His friend, Mosima Gabriel ‘Tokyo’ Sexwale, has painted a vivid picture of that heart-wrenching day.
"I saw Chris Hani dead," Sexwale told media at the time as he described how Hani’s lifeless body laid in a pool of blood.
At the time the country stood on a knife edge. Anger spilled into the streets. Communities consumed with grief and fury.
But amid the chaos, Hani’s death became more than a tragedy, it became a turning point in South Africa’s political landscape.
It forced leaders to act towards urgent negotiations to usher in democracy.
As the country reflects on the assassination of Chris Hani, eNCA takes its viewers back to that defining moment.