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The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. ... A build-up to the massacre; On 13 May 1902 the treaty which ended the Anglo-Boer War was signed at Vereeniging; it signified a new era...
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In 1996, on the 26th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, Nelson Mandela chose Sharpeville as the site to announce the signing of the new democratic constitution. The day is now commemorated as South Africa's Human Rights Day.
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At first, everything was relatively quiet, too, at the Sharpeville police station, 28 miles southwest of Johannesburg—but Sharpeville was soon to become a headline name the world over.
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News of the Sharpeville "massacre" was received with horror in South Africa and the world. Albert Luthuli called on all Africans to observe 28th March as a day of mourning; this resulted in a massive stay at home on the day.
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www.rebirth.co.za/apartheid_sharpeville_massacre.htm
www.rebirth.co.za/apartheid_sharpeville_massacre.htm
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The Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred on March 21, 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, was the incident that to that point resulted in the deaths of the largest number of South Africans in a protest against apartheid. It also came to symbolize that struggle.
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www.blackpast.org/?q=gah/sharpeville-massacre
www.blackpast.org/?q=gah/sharpeville-massacre
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To read more personal accounts as described by witnesses of the Sharpeville Massacre, click on the 'Accounts of the event' tab above. ... The anti-pass campaign that resulted in the Sharpeville Massacre was therefore the consequence of years of previous discriminatory treatment, which was made even more apparent by the...
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www.sahistory.org.za/pages/governence-projects/sharpevi...
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Arrests follow massacre ... this time in the African township of Sharpeville. As with most towns on the Reef, as the white population of Vereeniging grew so did the township for Africans on the outskirts of the town.
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www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/shareve.html
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Lewis Nkosi, a South African journalist who left the country on an exit permit in 1961, was a political reporter with the Post, a newspaper aimed at the African market, when the Sharpeville massacre occurred.
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www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/sharplle.html
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As a result of the Sharpeville massacre, the PAC and the African National Congress (ANC) shed their previous vigilant broad commitment to non-violent tactics to fight Apartheid. Practices such as "necklacing" soon took prominence in the liberation struggle.
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