He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government.
Chris Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993 at the age of 50 outside his home in Dawn Park, a racially mixed suburb of Boksburg.
He was accosted by a Polish far-right immigrant named Janusz Walus, who shot him in the head and back as he stepped out of his car.
The perpetrator fled the crime scene, but was later arrested after Hani's neighbour called the police.
Clive Derby-Lewis, the man who had lent Walus his pistol, was also arrested for complicity in Hani's murder.
Immense tension followed the assassination, with fears that the country would erupt in violence, which prompted Nelson Mandela to address the nation appealing for calm, in a speech regarded as 'presidential' even though he was not yet president of the country:
Hani's assassination is seen as a turning point for the struggle for freedom.
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