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The South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Solly Mapaila briefs the media.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Solly Mapaila says that their assassinated leader Chris Hani stood against what is currently happening politically in the country.
Mapaila’s party statement comes as the SACP’s tri-partite alliance partner, the ANC, contends with deep divisions in the GNU.
Mapaila was speaking in Mahikeng in the North West at the commemoration of the life of Hani, who was killed 32 years ago.
“We can’t be prophetic about what comrade Chris would have said, but what he stood for is not what is happening in our country in the sense that Chris, when he explained in simple language the struggle for socialism, was talking about decent housing for the people, health for all our people, clean drinking water for all our people, and education for all our people, and that we should control the tyranny of the markets – the oppression of our people by the capitalist system – all these still exist. So, essentially, we’ll continue on the front line to fight against capitalism.”
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Hani was brutally gunned down on the 10th of April 1993.
His assassin, Janusz Walus, was released on parole in 2022.
His parole period ended last year, which led to his deportation to Poland, his country of origin.
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