Survey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… 69 people were killed and 180 injured, many shot in the back as they fled the scene. The protest, led by the Pan … (dumb pass), that the apartheid regime forced black people to carry, and which controlled their movements. After the … symbolic gesture: he selected Sharpeville, about 70km to the south of Johannesburg, as the site where he signed the …