 Notably, on September 7, 1992 Hani played an integral role leading a procession of 80,000 people at Victoria Stadium before the mass came under machine gun fire, leading to the death of 28 in an event coined the Bisho Massacre.Hani held his General-Secretary position within SACP until his assassination on 10 April 1993.After the election of the white-dominant National Party in 1948, South Africa was characterised by ‘apartheid’, an engrained and dominating system of institutionalised segregation which encouraged the discrimination of coloured demographics.