'It was like a stokvel at my husband’s grave': Hani family walks out of ceremony

'It was like a stokvel at my husband’s grave': Hani family walks out of ceremony

The widow of struggle icon Chris Hani says she was left disappointed and offended after a wreath-laying ceremony in Boksburg was disrupted by what she described as excessive municipal involvement.

Statement on the postponement of the wreath-laying ceremony in honour of Cde Chris Hani | South African Communist Party (SACP)

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Inside struggle stalwart Chris Hani's wreath-laying commemoration row

The annual wreath-laying ceremony in honour of liberation struggle icon Chris Hani was postponed at his gravesite in Elspark, Ekurhuleni, after a dispute over what the SACP has described as the “self-imposition” of the Ekurhuleni municipality on the event. The SACP said the event was coordinated with the Hani family and alliance structures but was halted shortly after arrival at the gravesite, with alliance leaders agreeing to postpone proceedin…