Sunday 19 April 2015 17:38
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The lecture is one of a series of events to mark the assassination of Chris Hani, an SACP leader, in April 1993.(SABC)
Various speakers at the Chris Hani Memorial lecture held by the South African Communist Party (SACP) on Sunday at Vaal Reefs, near Klerkledorp, in North West, have condemned the recent spate of attacks on foreign nationals throughout the country.
The lecture is one of a series of events to mark the assassination of Hani, an SACP leader in April 1993.
SACP Central Committee member Jerry Thibedi says Chris Hani would never have condoned the violence. "He would never support the Afrophobia that is taking place today. Because this Afrophobia let me tell you comrades is not driven by anything else but by criminality."
"There is no law that stop us South Africans from operating and competing with these guys, why do we fight them and when fighting them go into their shops and loot, why do we loot," says Thibedi.