Chris Hani’s comrades have messed up spectacularly

The slain leader represented a future of dignity for SA’s people, but today’s ANC top brass find themselves disrespected and impotent in a fractious GNU

13 April 2025 - 00:00

There wasn’t much in the public sphere this week about the 32nd anniversary of Chris Hani’s killing, what with Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff war with China’s Xi Jinping hogging headlines across the globe...

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