The Life & Times of Chris Hani (1994)

This documentary examines slain South African Communist Party leader's humanitarian, self-critical, non-sexist and non-racial approach to life and the struggle for freedom in South Africa. This program reveals Hani's charisma, moral strength and passion for literature and his conservative religious upbringing. It provides a candid insight into his family background, political responsibilities and the effects that communism had on his life while tracking his role in peace and reconciliation in a fractured country. Chris Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993 - a year before the country's first democratic elections.