11 Facts About Limpho Hani

Limpho Hani served on the ANC's National Executive Committee during that period.

Limpho Hani has since remained in the public eye, partly because of the national symbolic importance of her husband's murder and partly because of her own activism in seeking to oppose parole for the killers.

Limpho Hani was born Limpho Sekamane on 31 January 1948 and is from Sea Point in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.

Limpho Hani married Chris Hani in 1974 at a magistrate's court in Lusaka, Zambia; they had a celebratory wedding lunch at Wimpy.

Limpho Hani herself worked for the Lesotho Tourism Board, but she became increasingly involved in MK operations; after the 1976 Soweto Uprising swelled the ANC's numbers, she was personally involved in smuggling new MK recruits across the South African border and through Swaziland.

Limpho Hani's husband was subject to an assassination attempt in 1982, and in the aftermath she left her job at the Lesotho Tourism Board to move with him to Lusaka.

Limpho Hani returned to Maseru in 1984 and took up employment with the local office of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and then, from 1985, at the Swedish Embassy in Maseru.

In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in April 1994, Limpho Hani was elected to represent the ANC as a Member of the National Assembly, the lower house of the new South African Parliament.

Limpho Hani was re-elected in the next general election in June 1999, but she resigned from her seat on 17 August 1999; her seat was filled by Kay Moonsamy.

Limpho Hani took my husband's life [and] he took my children father.

Limpho Hani expressed sympathy with the views of Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, who had recently received public attention for attacks on the judiciary and who Hani said was "the only one in this country who saw through these guys".