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FILE: The SACP's Blade Nzimande. Picture: @SACP1921/Twitter

Chris hani

Nzimande: Best way to honour Hani is to end war in Ukraine

By Kgomotso Modise

The SACP led a wreath-laying ceremony on Sunday for its leader exactly 29 years since his assassination.

  • Broken tombstones at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park in Germiston. Picture: Mia Lindeque/Eyewitness News

    SACP appalled by state of grave yard where struggle icon Chris Hani is buried

    Eyewitness News has exposed the vandalism at the Germiston cemetery with overgrown grass and weeds covering the tombstones while the fence has been badly damaged.

    88 days ago
  • Broken tombstones at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park in Germiston. Picture: Mia Lindeque/Eyewitness News

    Thomas Titus Nkobi Memorial Park - Ekurhuleni's forgotten cemetery

    Families are angry with the City of Ekurhuleni government. The resting place of Chris Hani is now little more than a bush.

    88 days ago
  • 'The dead are not respected here' - Neglected cemetery haunts families

    Families who have loved ones buried at the Thomas Titus Nkobi Cemetery in Germiston, are fuming over unkempt grass, vandalised infrastructure and theft. Eyewitness News' Mia Lindeque went to the cemetery and spoke to families affected. #Cemetery

    88 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus at a hearing in the Pretoria City Hall on 11 August 1997. Picture: AFP

    'I would never forgive him': Limpho Hani stands firm on Janusz Walus parole bid

    On Tuesday, Chris Hani's assassin Janusz Walus challenged a decision denying him parole and the Constitutional Court has reserved judgment.

    93 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus at a hearing in the Pretoria City Hall on 11 August 1997. Picture: AFP

    ConCourt reserves judgment in Janusz Waluś parole bid

    Janusz Waluś has on Tuesday challenged Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola's decision to deny his release.

    94 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Waluś is challenging Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola's decision to deny his release in the Constitutional Court. Picture: AFP

    Chris Hani’s killer Janusz Waluś takes another shot at parole

    The Polish immigrant is serving a life sentence for killing the SACP leader outside his Boksburg home in 1993.

    94 days ago
  • FILE: Nzimande said they would remain opposed to his killer, Janusz Walus’ release on parole, and would make sure he remains behind bars. Picture: Eyewitness News

    ‘Janusz Walus must rot in jail’ - SACP leader Blade Nzimande

    Chris Hani was killed by Walus in his driveway in Boksburg on 10 April 1993, in an attack that almost brought the country to the brink of a civil war.

    411 days ago
  • The late leader of the South African Communist Party, Chris Hani, who was assassinated outside his home in Dawn Park in Boksburg on 10 April, 1993. Picture: AFP.

    ‘If comrade Chris was ever captured, he was captured by the ANC’- Ramaphosa

    The African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners celebrated the life and times of Hani in Boksburg in Ekurhuleni on Saturday.

    412 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday,  10 April 2021 at the 28th Annual Chris Hani Commemoration wreath-laying ceremony. Picture: Twitter/@MYANC

    Ramaphosa calls for unity in ANC & with alliance partners in memory of Hani

    SACP secretary-general Blade Nzimande also spoke about unity in the ANC, saying different factions go against what Hani stood for.

    412 days ago
  • Chris Hani Gravestone on the 24th anniversary of his assassination. Picture: Louise McAuliffe/EWN

    Lesufi: Chris Hani’s murder was a test on commitment to a truly non-racial SA

    Acting Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi was speaking in Ekurhuleni at the 28th annual commemoration of Chris Hani on Saturday.

    412 days ago
  • FILE: The unveiling of a plaque on the declaration of the grave of Chris Hani & Chris Hani Memorial as a National Heritage Site. Picture: @GovernmentZA.

    WATCH LIVE: Commemoration of 28th year of Chris Hani's death

    Members of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party, Hani family and other political officials are on Saturday commemorating the 28th anniversary of Chris Hani's killing.

    412 days ago
  • This photo taken on 7 December 1991 shows newly elected secretary general of South African Communist Party (SACP) Chris Hani speaking at a press conference. Picture: AFP.

    KHAYA XABA: 28 years after Chris Hani’s assassination, how is SA faring?

    It’s important to undertake a frank assessment of some of the most pressing South African issues that our beloved Cde Chris Thembisile Hani fought for, writes Khaya Xaba.

    413 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Brown locust outbreak hits Chris Hani, Sarah Baartman districts in EC

    One hundred and twenty-seven farms have been affected in Middelburg Cape, Graaff-Reinet, Aberdeen, Cradock, Nieuethesda, Pearston and Jansenville.

    584 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus at a hearing in the Pretoria City Hall on 11 August 1997. Picture: AFP

    Chris Hani’s killer Janusz Waluś denied parole due to severity of the matter

    Justice Minister Ronald Lamola said it was clear the political assassination of the SACP leader was intended to create chaos and mayhem in the country.

    801 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus at a hearing in the Pretoria City Hall on 11 August 1997. Picture: AFP

    Lamola explains reasons for denying Chris Hani's killer Janusz Walus parole

    The convicted murderer's currently serving a life sentence for the killing of Hani outside his Boksburg home in 1993.

    802 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus takes an oath on 20 August 1997 at an amnesty hearing for the 1993 murder of SACP leader Chris Hani. Picture: AFP

    Chris Hani's killer Janusz Waluś denied parole again

    Waluś is currently serving a life sentence for the killing of the SACP leader outside his Boksburg home in 1993.

    802 days ago
  • FILE: The SACP's Blade Nzimande. Picture: @SACP1921/Twitter

    Nzimande: Janusz Walus must rot in jail

    Speaking at the closing of the special congress of the SACP, Nzimande said they would oppose any action to release him.

    897 days ago
  • FILE: Janusz Walus at a hearing in the Pretoria City Hall on 11 August 1997. Picture: AFP.

    Janusz Walus to ask High Court to set aside Masutha decision to deny him parole

    Janusz Walus is currently serving a life sentence for killing former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani outside his Boksburg home in 1993.

    963 days ago
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