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HILTON HANNIBAL

EARLY YEARS and POLITICAL ACTIVISM

Hilton Hannibal jnr a veteran South African political activist during the apartheid era.born in Retreat Cape Town where he attended Heathfield High School and later attended the University of Cape Town Medical School Research Unit under the auspices of Professor Christian Barnard.Hannibal played for Heathfield High rugby and soccer teams and also played during his school years for Retreat Rugby Club.Because of his staunch protest against the visiting French,Australian, British and New Zealand rugby teams he drew the attention of the authorities of the apartheid regime.His interest in politics came on the day of the assasination of the South African prime minister Hendrik Vervoed in 1966.His parents Sally and Hilton Hannibal belonged to the Federal Party(coloured people`s org).After numerous serious

car accidents and apprehension by the security forces Hannibal fled South Africa in 1977

for the Kingdom of Swaziland.It was here that he met Stanley Mabizela,the African National Congress representitive who told him that the " ANC will not touch you(Hannibal) with a stick".The ANC not knowing about Hilton Hannibal and thousands of young people who took part in the so called " Soweto Riots of 1976 " went on a policy of confrontation against the new emerging youth that fled South Africa by the thousands through Bostwana to Ghana and Nigeria.It should be noted that the youth of the SOWETO RIOTS was inspired by Steve Biko This was also due to the fact that Hannibal relied on ANC protection and leadership as a young twenty year old,however through Bishop Zwane of Manzini in Swaziland he was offered exile at the Bishops residence. Hilton Hannibal were one of the few that fled through Swaziland and then to Mozambique logistically this route is a difficult as the " Security Forces " of Swaziland,South Africa and Mozambique controls the border intensively .After escaping to Mozambique he befriended Jacob Zuma(President of South Africa) ,deputy head of the ANC in Mozambique where they had a cordial relationship.Tensions arose between Hilton Hannibal and the hardliners in the ANC (ANC -Dar-es Salaam ,ANC Luanda,ANC,Lusaka and ANC-London factions)and the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP)led by Joe Slovo and Ruth First These factions tried to put their messagess across by using Jacob Zuma, containing that Hilton Hannibal is a threat to the status quo of the Mozambique socialist state.It also came to Hilton Hannibal attention that BOSS (Burea of State Security of South Africa) has issued a warrant of arrest for him. Hannibal parents home was repeatedly raided and searched even into the nineties when Mandela was freed and the ANC had a legal presence in the country. Due to a spy in the ANC working for the Vorster Apartheid regime (John Vorster -Prime Minister RSA ) Hilton Hannibal was under surveillance by BOSS,ANC and the Frelimo Government of Mozambique in Mozambique.The free movement of BOSS in Maputo showed the complicity and the dareness of their actions.Both the ANC and the Apartheid regime had coinfidents in their organisations.Even though Hilton Hannibal was placed under home arrest by FRELIMO ( The Liberation Front of Mozambique ) in Maputo.In 1978 Hilton Hannibal was arrested in Maputo by Frelimo Secret Police on basis that he is working for the " CIA " and was imprisoned for 3 months without trial.He found out on his release from top Frelimo officials that information they received was from the ANC that he was a a CIA spy .Hilton Hannibal confronted the ANC and Jacob Zuma and began having open meeting with the embassy officials of the US and the British missions in Maputo under the surveillance of the secret police of Frelimo.Frelimo officials got to know that Hilton Hannibal started critisizing the ANC of supporting Joshua Nkomu of ZAPU which was a minor liberation movement and belong to the minority tribe in the Zimbabwe`s struggle.ANC refusal to support Robert Mugabe ZANU faction leading to friction between the ANC and Mugabe after Zimbabwe attained independence in 1981 hence causing Mugabe of snubbing the ANC. Hilton Hannibal was pressurised by the Frelimo Govt to leave Mozambique and was given exile in Ghana (Flt Jerry Rawlings and Capt. Kojo Tsikate and also Nigeria (Gen.Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ)forwarded an invitation.

WEST AFRICA

Hilton Hannibal on arriving in West Africa in Ghana and Nigeria found the freedom of expression that he has not enjoyed either in the apartheid South Africa nor in the republic of Mozambique.Hannibal not only attacked the ANC but also the UN ,OAU,(Organisation of African Union),World Bank and IMF on their policies that affect the african continent.

EUROPE/POLAND/EDUCATION

In 1981 left for Poland to study at Warsaw Medical School and Warsaw Academy Sports ,Central Europes top universities.It was in Poland that the ANC tried to influence the Polish Communist Party (PZPR) and its secret police (SB) to arrest Hannibal on the basis that he was a CIA spy in Mozambique.However the communist authorities refused as they had more experience in determning "Who "is a spy " Hannibal was told in 1986 by a SB officer after his wedding that if he was in Czechslovakia,Hungry,Rummania or East Germany he would have been jailed without trial.After the second failure of branding Hannibal a CIA spy the ANC withdrew all personnel from Poland. In 1989 Poland like South Africa became free from the entanglements of communism and apartheid and then Hannibal being under the protection of the United Nations found out that the government of South Africa in 1978 under prime ministers John Voster and later P W Botha stripped Hannibal of

his South African citizenship.This was upheld by President Nelson Mandela

in 1994.It became clear that this was one of the first cases that a citizen has been stripped by a sovergn country and under clandestine circumstances(Even Stalin had difficulty in stripping USSR citizens because the constitution forbade him to do it)

Walcz (A city in Poland send a threatening letter to Hannibal) The letters was sent in 1988 and 1995 and was addressed in english and afrikaans,taking into account that Hannibal was the only South African residing in Poland.The letter was short : ;(BLIKSEM(Fool) YOU WILL NEVER WIN AGAINST US ).This is a typical ANC ploy.

RSA-CONGO(One Country)

Hilton Hannibal believes that if Africa has to propell its self out of poverty ,South Africa has to move into a federation alliance with the Democratic Republic of Congo(Zaire) making it one of biggest countries in land area and mineral wealth.

Family

Hilton Hannibal is married to a Polish doctor and has a daughter Honorata a land suveyor architect and Kasper a biotechnology scientist