South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March, is synonymous with an innocuous but historic township, Sharpeville. For many South Africans, the public holiday will always remain Sharpeville Day on which the 1960 massacre took place – a watershed in the country’s liberation struggle. This is a visual retrospective of that fateful day.

26 March 2009

 

gugu

the commemoration of tragedies such as the 1960 massacre are constant reminders of the fact that white people did what they did to our brothers and sisters because they(black people) had what they wanted: the ability to live and love life regardless of the oppression black people experienced. it is constantly proven that black peolpe are strong, brave and intelligent, that is why we have suffered so much.

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31 March 2009

 

Ed

No matter how much we run from the past, it shapes who we have become and lays a foundation of who we will be tomorrow. Sharpeville came and went, the Holocaust left many with open wounds which bleed unto this day but all it did was teach the world to love again. It might not be too obvious but deep down, every human being has that ability to love, some just have a hard time showing it.

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26 May 2009

 

Kenneth Tekane

It is so sad to witness the poverty and unemployment dillema that the survivors of the Sharpeville 1960 killings are facing today. Nothing has been done to accomodate these survivors.It is cruel to ignore such freedom fighters.Sharpeville as a Township lacks development.Yes! There are some developmental strategies that have been implemented but the government just cannot maintain them like as they do for Soweto. Soweto is just another Apartheid museum. I feel sad to witness such inhumanity. Zuma,What are you waiting for? Develop all Townships and start gaining compusere about our past history. “Working Together we can do more”, isnt that so?

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19 March 2010

 

Oatway

Sigh… one of our country’s darkest moments… that one picture of the bodies… we should never forget this massacre. Freedom in SA came at a terrible price… that’s why we should not take our freedom for granted. So many sacrifices were made, so that we can live together as one nation. Let’s remember the Sharpeville victims, their families and all the struggle heroes who delivered us from the terrible Apartheid Regime. A great victory for mankind. Thank you.

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15 April 2010

 

Stikkies

We shurely should also remember the members of the SAP who was killed 10 days earlier by rioters, they where not only white……
Imagine the fear of the police after an insident like that……. I believe we should remember the whole history, not only some of it..

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21 April 2010

 

Jerry

But who remembers the Shell House (now Luthuli House) Massacre?

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19 April 2011

 

White Truth

“When the police in Sharpville saw the masses marching towards them, they panicked and opened fire, killing the 69 and injuring hundreds” Where did you get this from? This is misleading. This crowd marched towards the police throwing stones, bricks and spears. They carried illegal firearms and shot in the direction of the police, but I suppose that they being white and the “masses” being black, history deserves to be twisted. Those “poor” protesters were nothing but thugs who sotrmed the police and meant to incite violence. Luckily no matter what the ANC says, the world will remember it as we saw it and not as the ANC would like to force the world to see it.

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