Chris Hani Africa MAYIBUYE! Video Page
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After Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani was the most popular leader of the ANC, particularly among the poorest communities. Known as the tireless organizer of the ANC underground during the darkest years of resistance, the leader of the Umkhonto we sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, whose presence and struggle brought the apartheid regime to the negotiating table, Chris Hani was also the dynamic leader of the South African Communist Party and active in the struggles of the workers and the poor.
This documentary will tell the story of this youth from a poor village in the rural Transkei with no water or electricity, who worked his way up to Fort Hare University and into the ANC student underground. His comrades tell his story and give their appreciation of this remarkable leader who, more than any other single person, was blamed by the apartheid regime for its demise. The policy of the United States towards Africa for 4 decades was to have its intelligence agencies destroy any leadership that could bring Africa together. Chris Hani Viva! probes deeply into the role of the Western intelligence agencies and governments in supporting and sustaining the wave of political violence and death squads that swept through South Africa in an attempt to keep grass rots leadership from emerging.