perhaps they would understand that Sharpeville is not a geographic location. It is a day that is rooted in the human rights struggle. The ultimate vision was to create a non-racial SA that would ...

The first settlement in the Sharpeville area – Top Location – was razed in the 1950s to make space for white people’s businesses and homes. Official records and aerial photographs reveal the ...

At first, everything was relatively quiet, too, at the Sharpeville police station, 28 miles southwest of Johannesburg—but Sharpeville was soon to become a headline name the world over.

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 ...

He was speaking from Sharpeville, which is located 50 kilometres south of Johannesburg. It is fifty years since, on 21 March 1960, apartheid era police killed unarmed people demonstrating against ...

opposition party – wrote that the Sharpeville massacre “must be properly located in the struggle as led by the ANC”. The memorial at Langa [Raeesa Pather/Al Jazeera] Kgosana told Al ...