Africa is a country - April 10, 2014
The American political scientist Adolph Reed Jnr. once wrote
about Malcolm X that “… he was just like the rest of us—a regular
person saddled with imperfect knowledge, human frailties, and
conflicting imperatives, but nonetheless trying to make sense of his
very specific history, trying unsuccessfully to transcend it, and
struggling to push it in a humane direction.” Like Malcolm X, Chris Hani, who was also assassinated (Hani was murdered on this day in 1993), should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Yet, any observer of contemporary South
Africa can’t help noticing that while Chris Hani is still lionized and
his name invoked in speeches and songs, the principles he stood for no
longer animate the political project of the liberation movement he laid
down his life for or that his erstwhile comrades in the ruling party,
its Communist ally and the main trade union federation have been
disappointing.
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