The Plot to Save South Africa: masterful account of an assassination that nearly derailed efforts to end apartheid
I was about to set off to the airport on the morning of 10 April 1993 to cover the great American boxer Muhammad Ali’s arrival in Johannesburg when the news came through: Chris Hani had been murdered. Of all the African National Congress (ANC) leaders I’d met during a decade of underground membership during the 1980s, the one who impressed me the most was Hani. Author GAVIN EVANS, Lecturer, Culture and Media Department, Birkbeck, University of London From 1987 to 1992 Hani was chief of staff of the movement’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and leader of the South African…