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.

POLOKWANE – The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, at the Sharpeville police station where 69 people were killed and 180 injured. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) proposed an anti ...

The international media coverage of the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 was the first time South Africa’s reality was brought to a wider audience, but although England Prime Minister Harold ...

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 ...