He suggests Modise was being wined and dined by arms manufacturers from the late 1980s, when it was realised that South Africa under an ANC government would have to re-arm. He points out that the genesis of the Arms Deal itself lies in the days before the ANC became the government, and while it was in fact preparing to govern. He also says that Hani knew about this, and was about to expose him. No proof has ever emerged, and it was largely written off as a crackpot claim.Ĭrawford-Brown’s main claim is that Modise had been involved in corruption for some time. At one point it was claimed that Thabo Mbeki was responsible, because he had the most to gain from Hani’s disappearance from the national scene. Rumours have always swirled around this incident. Now Crawford-Browne has blundered into a very sensitive stage of our history, and suggested that actually there might have been some serious ANC internal politics involved in the Hani killing. The rest of the nation moved on, voted, Madiba became president, and the Springboks won the rugby World Cup.

They were convicted and denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Soon after, Janusz Walu? and Clive Derby-Lewis were arrested for the killing. Nelson Mandela had to go on national television (famously, before the then-President FW de Klerk) to call for peace, and point out that it was a “white woman” who called for help and notified the police. It was the closest we ever came to a race war. When he was killed outside his Boksburg home, the nation went into shock. Popular, confident, radical but turning towards peace, the SACP leader was a giant who walked the earth. The 1993 assassination of Chris Hani is viewed, quite rightly, as one of the pivotal moments of our history. But Crawford-Browne is also poking a hot stick into old wounds the ANC still carries today.

It is an allegation so astonishing that many people have simply been shocked. He claimed that the person really responsible for the assassination of Chris Hani in 1993 may have been former Defence Minister Joe Modise. On Wednesday the arms deal activist Terry Crawford-Browne went before the Arms Deal Commission and dropped a bombshell.

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