1993/04/10 - Boksburg Ein Komplott, dessen Drahtzieher Clive Derby-Lewis, ehemals Parlamentsabgeordneter der Konservativen Partei, war, führt zur Ermordung von Chris Hani, nach Nelson Mandela eine der beliebtesten Führungsfiguren des ANC und Generalsekretär der South African Communist Party.
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Hani, dem zugetraut wurde, im Prozess der Überwindung der Apartheid, den Bewohnern der Townships und radikal gesonnenen Negern die in den laufenden Verhandlungen zwischen der Regierung und dem ANC zu erreichenden Kompromisse „vermitteln“ zu können, wird beim Verlassen seines Autos von Janusz Waluś, einem rechtsradikalen polnischen Einwanderer erschossen.
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They (the ANC) are communist and they will destroy this wonderful country. They will squander all that was built here by Whites with such difficulty. It pains me that everything here will be destroyed in the name of a multiracial utopia that will never work here. They want freedom and democracy. In a few years freedom and democracy will be all they will have. - Janusz Waluś
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Hanis Ermordung bringt Südafrika an den Rand eines Bürgerkriegs, dessen möglichen Ausbruch Nelson Mandela mit rhetorischem Geschick verhindert:
Tonight I am reaching out to every single South African, black and white, from the very depths of my being. A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice, this assassin. The cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani has sent shock waves throughout the country and the world. ... Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for – the freedom of all of us.
