Verdict: carrot
When the name Chris Hani comes up, the first thought is: What if…?
I never got to meet Hani, but as a political writer during the 1970s and 1980s I was acutely aware of his reputation as a liberation fighter. By the time the transition processes started in the early ’90s, there was no doubt that he was going to feature prominently in the new scheme of things.
News of his assassination on April 10, 1993 came as a terrible shock for the way it snuffed out the life of an evidently remarkable individual and for the frightful implications it held for a country then so delicately poised between peace and calamity. I remember sensing the same dread I had felt as a youngster when told of John F Kennedy’s assassination. Fear of somebody pushing the nuclear button was not far-fetched in those Cold War times.
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