6.) On 30 March 1960 ... Various international protests followed the Sharpeville shootings, including sympathetic demonstrations in many countries. 8.) The Sharpeville massacre led to the banning ...

Just two months after Sharpeville, with the smoke having barely ... in captain Francois Pienaar’s No 6 jersey, it was a seismic symbol of forgiveness. The crowd responded by cheering for him.

Despite earlier calls for unity between political parties to mark the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, the Gauteng provincial government was forced to abandon its commemoration event ...

On the roads leading up to the George Thabe Stadium in Sharpeville, the venue for government's official Human Rights Day commemoration, dozens of men were cutting the grass, earth-moving equipment ...

Some 20 thousand people had gathered near a police station at Sharpville, South of Johannesburg, to hand over their pass books. The violence of the apartheid police was on display and it is seen ...