 According to Jeremy Cronin, then Deputy Secretary of the SACP (South African Communist Party), the actions of Waluś and Derby-Lewis came close to “plunging South Africa into civil war”.In response to the assassination, Mr. Mandela, though yet not President, addressed the nation on 14 April 1993 in attempt to rationalise the conflict between right and left winged politics during this peak of tension, calling for a national day of mourning.Several conspiracy theories have emerged suggesting the involvement of alternate political agendas in the Hani assassination, including suggestions by arms-dealer Terry Crawford-Browne regarding the involvement of Joe Modise, the longstanding leader of MK, due to engrained corruption within the ANC.