Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993), [1] ... Transkei. His father Gilbert Hani was a mine union worker and political activist who left the country to go into exile in 1962 and returned to South Africa in 1991. His mother Mary Hani was a simple person who had never attended school. He was the fifth of six children.

Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of Gilbert and Mary Hani, and one of the three that did not die during infancy.

Apr 10, 1993 · Freedom fighter and political activist Tembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of Gilbert and Mary Hani. Three of the children died in childhood.

Chris Hani was born in Sabalele in the Cofimvaba district of Transkei, South Africa. An all-black homeland for Xhosa-speaking native people, Transkei was a “Bantustan,” one of ten areas wherein whiteruled South Africa segregated the black ethnic population under a …

Dec 7, 2024 · Chris Hani was a South African political activist who was assassinated in 1993. He was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Apr 10, 2015 · Born in 1942 in the Transkei, he was politicised by the sheer poverty that he saw around him in his early life. He joined the ANC’s Youth League at the age of 15, and quickly went on to become a dedicated organiser.

28 June, Martin Tembisile, who later becomes known as Chris Hani, is born in the village of Sabalele in Cofimvaba (then named St Marks) region, Transkei (now Eastern Cape), South Africa, to Gilbert and Mary. He is the fifth of six children.

Chris Hani, who was born Martin Thembisile Hani on June 28, 1942, in Cofimvaba, Transkei, became active in politics as a high school student in Cape Town in 1957. Recalling his political initiation, he once explained: "For about six months I was in the Unity Movement.

On 8 December 1991, former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Army Chief of Staff, Chris Hani, was elected as General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at its first legal congress in four decades after its unbanning in February 1990.

Apr 3, 2013 · In summary: Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe and General-Secretary of the SACP. Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of Gilbert and Mary Hani. Three of the five children died young.