Verdict: stick
“Hani deserves better,” concludes the reviewer:
THE subtitle of this book sums up his biographers’ quandary: Martin Tembisile (Chris) Hani was a significant political figure, but did not live long enough to exercise power. Not knowing what he would have done with it, his bio graphy inevitably ends with a notional question mark.
Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp, journalists on the Star, argue that before his murder in April 1993, Hani was preaching peace and was acutely worried about the criminal potential of township self-defence units. He had apparently abandoned the concept of a vanguard communist party and was leaning towards social democracy.
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