The Sharpeville Memorial commemorates the 69 people killed by police during the peaceful anti-pass law protests in 1960. This massacre was a turning point in the anti-apartheid movement and ...

It has always been tradition that the main event be held at Phelindaba cemetery, where the bodies of the 69 are buried and where the Sharpeville memorial garden was erected. This is also where, ...

resident Cyril Ramaphosa lays a wreath at the Sharpeville memorial site ahead of the commemoration of Human Rights Day in Sharpeville. President Cyril Ramaphosa has encouraged South Africans to ...

The day started with a wreath laying ceremony at the Phelindaba Cemetery and proceeded to the Sharpeville Memorial site. The last stop was the Sharpeville Cricket Pitch where hundreds of crowds ...

The memorial at Langa [Raeesa Pather/Al Jazeera] Kgosana told Al Jazeera he understands that the scale of the Sharpeville massacre snared the world’s attention, but cautions against the ...

Several small groups of PAC members marched, chanted and sang while moving between the Sharpeville memorial and the stadium. A PAC member, who did not want to be named, said that while there were ...

He will commence the day with a wreath-laying ceremony scheduled for 10am at the Sharpeville Memorial Site. In a statement, the presidency said: “Ahead of addressing the national event ...

But the main event has always been held at Phelindaba cemetery, where the 69 bodies are buried and where the Sharpeville Memorial Garden was erected. This is also where the president and other senior ...

Sharpeville and other places like it were ... the information uncovered in our research to update the Wall of Names Memorial (which lists the name of every person who gave their life fighting ...

JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa has remembered the 69 people who were murdered in the Sharpeville massacre. Ramaphosa spoke at the national Human Rights Day commemoration at the George ...