Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’

South Africa: from Sharpeville to Marikana

by David Osler.

MORE than 50 years after the event, the very name Sharpeville still remains inextricably associated with the mass murder perpetrated in that Transvaal township on March 21 1960. The official inquiry into the massacre – in which 69 died and 180 were injured – laid the blame on rookie constables opening fire on an unarmed […]

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