Sharpeville, initially built to move Top Location residents further away from Vereeniging, was established in 1935 during the mayorship of John Lille Sharpe. Sharpe, who died in 1937, came to ...

And Sharpeville is a very small township — compared to [nearby] Soweto, it is very small. And we had over 100 police officers that were armed. “We had armoured vehicles that were transported all the ...

The "Sharpeville Massacre" elicited international condemnation and galvanized the anti-apartheid freedom struggle in South Africa. In 1966, the United Nations proclaimed March 21 as the International ...

Analysis - On 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa's police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, who were protesting against carrying ...

Given the international outcry, will Israel’s third major Gaza battle in less than six years turn out to be its South Africa-like Sharpeville moment on the road to international isolation?

Sharpeville: A Massacre and Its Consequences Tom Lodge. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-280185-2 ...

In many ways, Sharpeville itself is not markedly different from the township in 1960. It remains marginalised, unemployment is still rife, the roads are still potholed and rubbish adorns the ...

A senior SAPS official brought the matter to the attention of the Serious Corruption Investigation (SCI) unit in Vaal Rand. A Chinese national had allegedly been unlawfully detained by SAPS members, ...