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ArticleSharpeville
… nearly 5,000 residents gathered at the police station in Sharpeville, a township just outside Johannesburg. … dead and 180 people seriously wounded. The…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… station. This was done in an attempt to clog the system. Sharpeville residents awoke to find letters in their mail box … at home and join the PAC in handing…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… International responses The Sharpeville massacre was reported worldwide, and received … and other leaders were arrested and detained after the Sharpeville…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Sophiatown were potentially hotbeds of dissent. Yet it was Sharpeville and the events of the 21st March that came to … Black people against the unjust system…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… On the morning of 21 March, PAC members walked around Sharpeville waking people up and urging them to take part in … going on duty and this resulted in a…
Sharpeville Massacre Gallery
… Sharpeville Massacre Gallery …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… Tyler, assistant editor, Drum magazine... "We went into Sharpeville the back way, behind a grey police car and three … I heard on the news that someone had…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… nearest police station on 21 March. Protests took place in Sharpeville and in the Western Cape in townships such as … protest was of a non-violent nature,…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… Sharpeville Township holds many sad memories and is Home to the Memorial at the 'Human Rights Precinct'. Sharpeville is situated +/-14 km from Vereeniging …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… the country was rocked by the events of 21 March in Sharpeville where people had gathered to show the police that … subsequent decline of the liberation…
ArticleList of victims of police action, 21 March, 1960 (Sharpeville and Langa)
… Sharpeville Funeral, 13 April, 1960. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.pictures Casualties in Sharpeville Bakela, Wiggi Beshe, James Bessie…
ArchiveSupport Sharpeville Six
… and black on yellow; graphic men and nooses; text: Support Sharpeville Six; We will not allow them to hang; Ried … Support Sharpeville Six …
ArchiveSharpeville 21 March 1960
… Article regarding the Sharpeville 21 March 1960. 5 000 people gathered at the Sharpeville police station near Johannesburg to start the Pan … Sharpeville 21…
ArchiveSharpeville revisited
… Sharpeville revisited …
ArchiveRemember Sharpeville
… Remember Sharpeville …
Sharpeville Day: commemoration meeting
… A pamphlet to publicise a meeting commemorating the Sharpeville massacre which took place on 21 March 1960 … Sharpeville Day: commemoration meeting …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of … Sharpeville Deputy Mayor killed …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… March 1960, took place in Langa and Nyanga, Cape Town and Sharpeville, in the Transvaal. At Sharpeville, police opened fire on the demonstrators and … State…
ArchiveSharpeville commemoration lecture
… Sharpeville commemoration lecture …
ArchiveSunshine and Sharpeville
… Sunshine and Sharpeville …
Poster commemorating Sharpeville 4
… Poster commemorating Sharpeville 4 …
Poster commemorating Sharpeville 5
… Poster commemorating Sharpeville 5 …
Poster commemorating Sharpeville 3
… Poster commemorating Sharpeville 3 …
Poster commemorating Sharpeville 1
… Poster commemorating Sharpeville 1 …
ArchiveWe remember Sharpeville
… We remember Sharpeville …
ArchiveSebokeng Sharpeville : Repression
… Sebokeng Sharpeville : Repression …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoena, better known as the "Sharpeville Six", narrowly escaped their scheduled hangings … by fifteen hours. A huge sigh of relief…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… Duma Khumalo and Francis Mokhesi, better known as the "Sharpeville Six" opened on this date. They were accused of having killed the deputy major of…
EventP. W. Botha grants reprieve to the “Sharpeville Six”
… African President P. W. Botha granted a reprieve to the "Sharpeville Six" (Reginald Sefatsa, Reid Mokoena, Moses … that killed Kuzwayo Jacob Dlamini the…
ArchiveRemember ... Sharpeville : Remember ... Uitenhage
… Remember ... Sharpeville : Remember ... Uitenhage …