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Sharpeville - An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences (Hardcover)
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On March 21, 1960, a line of 150 white policemen fired 1344 rounds
into a crowd of several thousand people assembled outside a police
station, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist "pass"
laws. The gunfire left in its wake sixty-seven dead and one hundred
and eighty six wounded. Most of the people who were killed were
shot in the back, hit while running away.
The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, marked
the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted
worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. In
Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred,
looking at the social and political background to the events of
March 1960 as well as the long-term consequences of the shootings.
Lodge offers a gripping account of the Massacre itself as well as
the wider events that accompanied the tragedy, particularly the
simultaneous protest in Cape Town which helped prolong the
political crisis that developed in the wake of the shootings. Just
as important, he sheds light on the long term consequences of these
events. He explores how the Sharpeville events affected the
perceptions of black and white political leadership in South Africa
as well as South Africa's relationship with the rest of the world,
and he describes the development of an international
"Anti-Apartheid" movement in the wake of the shootings.
In South Africa today, March 21 is a public holiday, Human Rights
Day, and for many people, it remains a day of mourning and
memorial. This book illuminates this pivotal event in South African
history.
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