GAUTENG CELEBRATES CHRIS HANI’S LEGACY ON FREEDOM DAY By Gundo Maalakano
auteng Provincial Government together with City of Ekurhuleni celebrated Freedom Day at Dawn Park Primary School grounds in Boksburg. The day was also used to remember the late freedom activist stalwart Chris Thembisile Hani, who was killed during the month of April in 1993. Freedom Day was celebrated under the theme “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke: the meaning of Freedom under COVID-19”, in recognition of the contribution made by Mme Maxeke in the course for Freedom. The theme also recognises the continued effect of COVID-19 on day-to-day lives, and the extent to which the COVID-19 social reality has muted certain components of our civil liberties, even as the nation professes to be free and liberated. The day started with a 2,7km walk that passed through the shops where Chris Hani went to buy newspapers moments before his assassination as he returned home. A wreath laying ceremony took place at the Chris Hani Museum, located at the house Hani used to live in.
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