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Assassination of Chris Hani (1993)

On the Decolonization of Africa map as “The Hani assassination”

10 Apr 1993 — A white extremist murders Chris Hani, the popular Communist and MK leader, hoping to ignite a race war. Mandela — not the state president — calms the country on television. The transition holds by a thread.

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Turning point
Chapter
End of apartheid (chapter 11 of Decolonization of Africa)
Atlas
The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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