A journalist recounts the heartbreaking moment he witnessed the aftermath of Chris Hani's murder, a close friend and comrade of Tokyo Sexwale, in 1994.
I had come to know Chris and Tokyo well, after journalist Sefako Nyaka introduced me to them not long after they had returned from exile in the early 1990s.Easter Saturday, 10 April 1994, was warmer than it has been this week, but there was a chill air about Dawn Park in Boksburg that day.
Tokyo Sexwale would shake his head every now and then, unable to comprehend that it was his comrade and close friend, Chris Hani, covered up.I had come to know Chris and Tokyo well, after journalist Sefako Nyaka introduced me to them not long after they had returned from exile in the early 1990s.The ANC PWV office was on the first floor of a dingy building in downtown Joburg, near the Rissik Street Post Office. Chris laughed as he showed me around the sparsely-furnished space.
In all our discussions, it was Chris, particularly, who was the intellectual with the common touch. I never felt, in his presence, any sort of hatred because I was white. When we talked about his vision for the future, he would always look me straight in the eyes and repeatedly use the term “we”, emphasising that the new society would be non-racial.
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