KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala
Humble Greetings to you all.
We meet on a historic day which reminds us as a nation of the difficult and painful journey we have travelled together in three decades.
It’s a day that reminds us that we must cherish our hard won freedom and defend it because it was achieved through the shedding of blood of our people. It was on this day in 1993 that a giant of our liberation, the revolutionary Chris Hani, was assassinated by right wing extremists who were bent on plunging our beautiful country into anarchy, death, and ruin.
It took the extraordinary leadership of the ANC President, Tata Nelson Mandela, to calm our nation and to remind our nation that this was not a time for revenge, bloodshed, and destruction.
May I humble ask all of us to rise and observe a moment of silence to remember our leader Chris Hani. Let us also remember the many people that we know, black and white, who have lost their lives through violent in all the farming communities in KwaZulu-Natal.