- Title
- Up Beat Issue Number 3 1991
- Creator
- SACHED
- Subject
- SACHED
- Date Issued
- 1991
- Date
- 1991
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118871
- Identifier
- vital:34678
- Description
- The 21 March is Sharpe- ville Day. On this day we remember what happened in 1960, when hundreds of people in townships all over South Africa marched on to police stations and burned their passes. In the morning of the 21 March 1960, thousands of people gathered outside the police station in the eastern Transvaal township of Sharpeville. They had been told that the police might announce changes in the pass law. At 1.15pm scuffle broke out outside the wire — fence of the police station. The police feared that the fence would collapse under the weight of the crowd. So they started to fire on the people. The people right in front immediately turned to flee, but could not get through the crush of people behind them. Sixty-nine people were killed and a further 180 wounded. Most of those killed were later found to have been shot in the back.
- Format
- 32 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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