Point of View with Phemelo Motene

21 Mar Sharpeville massacre, summary, significance & facts

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It’s been 64 years since 69 protesters who were marching peacefully against discriminatory pass laws were shot and killed by apartheid police. Phemelo speak to Historian, Steve Lebelo who believes the Sharpeville massacre was not a violation of human rights as the ANC government would like us to believe. He says it was an atrocity, brutally tragic, leaving an indelible mark in the imagination of Africans in relation to white supremacy.
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