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	Sharpeville Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sharpeville marked a turning point in South Africa's history; the country found itself increasingly isolated in the international community.
		The Sharpeville massacre led to the banning of the ANC and PAC and was one of the catalysts for the foundation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC.
		The Sharpeville Massacre - a watershed in South Africa (http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/shareve.html), by The Rt.
	encyclopedia.onlinereference.info /index.php/Sharpeville_Massacre (374 words)

	Sharpeville massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It could therefore be concluded that the cause of the Sharpeville massacre was not only that the government was oppressive, but also because of the inexperience of the police officers present which caused them to lose control of the situation and start firing on the crowd.
		The Sharpeville massacre led to the banning of the ANC and PAC and was one of the catalysts for the foundation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the ANC, and Poqo, the military wing of the PAC.
		The Sharpeville Massacre - a watershed in South Africa, by The Rt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharpeville_massacre (511 words)

	Sharpeville, Gauteng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sharpeville is a township situated between two large industrial cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging in southern Gauteng, South Africa.
		On March 21, 1960 the Sharpeville massacre occurred when the South African police opened fire on fl civilians protesting the abhorred Pass Law, which restricted them to certain areas and forced them to carry passes at all times.
		Sharpeville was also the site of a controversial murder in 1983 which led to the arrest, trial, and death sentences (later commuted) of the Sharpeville Six.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharpeville (167 words)

	Sharpeville Massacre - MSN Encarta
		The confrontation occurred in the township of Sharpeville, in what is now Gauteng province, in northeastern South Africa.
		Following the election of the National Party to office in South Africa in 1948, a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid was introduced.
		Sharpeville marked a turning point in South Africa's history; the country found itself increasingly isolated in the international community for the next 30 years.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584110/Sharpeville_Massacre.html (360 words)

	THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE - A WATERSHED IN SOUTH AFRICA&1. In 1966, the nternational Day.& partheid published ...
		I was not at Sharpeville when the shooting occurred but it was familiar territory to me. Time and again I officiated at the large African Anglican church there and knew intimately many of the congregation, some of whom were to be involved in the events of that tragic day.
		Until Sharpeville, violence for the most part had been used in South Africa by those who were committed to the maintenance of the economic and political domination of the white minority in the Republic.
		Sharpeville was a tragedy showing most plainly that the ideology of apartheid is a way of death and not of life.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/misc/shareve.html (5333 words)

	Of Interest Sharpeville
		Sharpeville is the oldest of the six townships in the Vaal Triangle.
		Because Sharpeville was planned to relocate the people of Toplocation and not to house additional people, the housing shortage was not alleviated with the establishment of Sharpeville.
		In Sharpeville a new memorial to the 1960 tragedy has been constructed, and is sure to contribute to an interesting tour of the area.
	www.vaalmeander.co.za /ofinterestsharpville.htm (631 words)

	The Sharpeville Massacre
		The posthumous tribute to the martyrs of Sharpeville, Langa, Nyanga and Vanderbijl Park is viewed as tantamount to the canonisation of men, women and children who paid for the noble cause of freedom with their own blood.
		Just as Sharpeville resulted from the high tide of decolonisation in Africa north of the Zambesi, the battle for liberation everyone is predicting soon to take place in South Africa stands to gain from the favourable conditions now surrounding the African masses within Azania.
		The greatest significance of the campaign which led to the Sharpeville shootings lies in the fact that it proved that the South African apartheid regime, 1ike all oppressive regimes, is vulnerable.
	www.findthelinks.com /Forum/_Political/0000003f.htm (5877 words)

	Sharpeville Commemoration
		The Sharpeville Remembered Print Portfolio was produced to honor the martyrs of Sharpeville as well as to pay homage to all who died because of the oppression of the apartheid regime.
		Eleven artists from the Vaal Triangle region (which is where Sharpeville is situated) and eleven artists from Johannesburg each produced an edition of 55 prints which illustrated their individualized personal responses to the massacre.
		of the new monument in Sharpeville on the 21st March 2002 and was exhibited in the old holding cells at the Sharpeville Police Station where the massacre took place.
	www.worldprintmakers.com /sharpevi/sharpevi.htm (986 words)

	The Sharpeville Massacre: Deaths not in Vain
		As a result of the Sharpeville massacre, the PAC and the African National Congress (ANC) shed their previous vigilant broad commitment to non-violent tactics to fight Apartheid.
		Despite the instinctive recourse to meet violence with violence, the Sharpeville massacre did not obliterate all semblance of peaceful expressions of opposition.
		The battle for the validity and application of the pass laws continued after the Sharpeville massacre, but the policy and the protests it caused led to the collapse of the then-current government, and the ruling National Party was forced to moderate its position if it wanted to maintain its one party grasp on power.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/international_trade_politics/114813 (504 words)

	The Hindu : Sharpeville rally focus on moral regeneration
		The day, observed as Sharpeville Day during the liberation movement, was re-designated and began to be so observed after the advent of democracy.
		The day commemorates the massacre at Sharpeville, the fl township near Vanderbijilpark south of Johannesburg, in 1960 when the security forces fired upon an unarmed crowd protesting against the hated pass laws.
		Sharpeville is now universally acknowledged as a defining moment in the history of the liberation movement.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/03/31/stories/0331000c.htm (466 words)

	PROFILE FRAME
		Dlamini, as a resident of Sharpeville was the obvious target for the protest in Sharpeville.
		The Sharpeville Six drew national and international headlines when they were sentence to death by hanging, even though they all maintain they were not even anywhere near the scene of the murder when it happened.
		This was the case with the Sharpeville Six, there was no sufficient evidence to warrant the Death penalty because the court could still not prove they murdered Mr.
	www.sharpeville.co.za /In_line/history_frame3.htm (1902 words)

	Apartheid Sharpeville Massacre
		In Sharpeville people were waving at the jets and throwing their hats in the air, they were impressed by the low flying jets and thought it to be an Air force display.
		Meanwhile about 300 policeman arrived in Sharpeville to assist the local police as the marches ascended on the police station.
		News of the Sharpeville "massacre" was received with horror in South Africa and the world.
	www.rebirth.co.za /apartheid_sharpeville_massacre.htm (1003 words)

	Pass Laws
		Millions of fls were punished and imprisoned for not having their pass books or not having them in order from the year 1952 to the year 1986.
		The Sharpeville Massacre took place on March 21, 1960, when a large group of fls refused to carry their passbooks and protested in front of a Sharpeville police station.
		The scars of pass laws and apartheid are still in the places such as Sharpeville, and people will always remember those who died trying to fight for freedom, which is something no one should have to fight for.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/04/Jsmith/Jsmith.htm (1655 words)

	Sharpeville massacre sparks international condemnation - Canada and the Fight Against Apartheid - CBC Archives
		Sharpeville was a fl township near Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg.
		• The Sharpeville massacre was caught on tape by a BBC television crew and became a turning point in world opinion.
		He wrote, "To understand what it is to be a resident of Sharpeville is to understand apartheid, to know why 70 persons were shot to death there, and to comprehend why 14.5 million South Africans of all colours and backgrounds face the future uneasily."
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-71-703-4114/conflict_war/apartheid/clip2 (428 words)

	The Sharpeville Massacre: An atrocity against Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the tragedies of post apartheid South Africa is too much about the numerous atrocities during the vicious era of the White supremacist regime being forgotten.
		African Liberation Movement forces, around the world, commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and this is the 42nd anniversary of this tragic event in South African history.
		It is because of this incessant act of violence that we commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/printer_630.shtml (670 words)

	Human rights and Sharpeville - SouthAfrica.info
		In 2001, the government marked 21 March by unveiling the Sharpeville human rights memorial on the site outside the police station where the 69 men, women and children were shot - most of them in the back.
		The 46th anniversary of Sharpeville Day is also the 10th birthday of Human Rights Day and the signing of South Africa's Constitution - 10 years during which a number of laws have been enacted to protect basic individual rights in the country.
		Like many other townships, Sharpeville is a thorn in the government's side, with residents complaining that service delivery, regarded as a basic human right which fls were denied during apartheid, needs acceleration.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/history/sharpeville.htm (1238 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Robyn Sassen \| Just Another Day in Africa \| Still Standing: The Sharpeville Six
		On the one hand, we have the Sharpeville Six: five men and one woman who will never again experience the joys of carefree youth, who will never know what their children were like as young toddlers, and who will probably never be compensated by the powers that destroyed their lives arbitrarily.
		Due in large part to bearing the social stigma of the infamous jail sentence, the Sharpeville Six were not able to find regular work and were not even compensated by the state for the gross injustice they suffered.
		During their incarceration in Death Row for a period of more than 1,000 days, the remaining Sharpeville Six were privy to the last words and gestures of hundreds of men and women hung by the apartheid regime.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/sassen/020605.shtml (2570 words)

	March 21: South African Human Rights Day
		Sharpeville is a township outside of Johannesburg where police shot and killed 69 anti-apartheid protesters and wounded 180 others on March 21 1960.
		The protesters were resisting a new law, The Native Laws Amendment Act, which required all fl South Africans to carry a pass that restricted their movement in “white” urban areas.
		Kofi Annan addressed the injustice of the Sharpeville massacre and pointed to continuing problems with racial intolerance stating that, “More than 40 years later, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance are still extremely serious problems.
	www.iansa.org /regions/safrica/sa_hrday_2004.htm (1500 words)

	Sharpeville Massacre - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sharpeville Massacre, incident that took place at the Sharpeville township, in the Transvaal, South Africa, on March 21, 1960, when police opened...
		The attempt by the apartheid government of South Africa to control the movements of the fl African population by issuing “pass books” following...
		The Sharpeville Massacre represented a turning point in the anti-apartheid struggle.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sharpeville_Massacre.html (115 words)

	Mario Pavone MP3 Downloads - Mario Pavone Music Downloads - Mario Pavone Music Videos
		The lineup is something of an all-star affair, a meeting of some of the finest minds in avant-garde jazz: Pavone on bass, Pheeroan Ak Laff on drums, and both Marty Ehrlich and the late Thomas Chapin on assorted wind instruments,...
		The lineup is something of an all-star affair, a meeting of some of the finest minds in avant-garde jazz: Pavone on bass, Pheeroan Ak Laff on drums, and both Marty Ehrlich and the late Thomas Chapin on assorted wind instruments, including alto sax, clarinet, flute, alto flute, and bass flute.
		Dedicated to the victims of the Sharpeville Massacre, perpetrated by the South African government on March 21, 1960, the ostinato-driven work is a haunting, sobering salute to dignity in the face of injustice.
	www.mp3.com /albums/458003/summary.html (318 words)

	Special meetings mark 26th anniversary of Sharpeville massacre; Secretary-General says racial discrimination should ...
		A minute of silence was observed in memory of the 69 persons killed and 180 wounded at Sharpeville and other freedom fighters who have died in the struggle against apartheid and racial discrimination.
		The quarter century since Sharpeville had seen numerous lost opportunities for reconciliation and peace which had combined to bring South Africa to a "dangerous impasse'.
		General Assembly President Jaime de Pinies told the meeting that since Sharpeville, other incidents had occurred which had demonstrated the inhuman character of the apartheid system, whose existence constituted a threat to international peace and security.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_v23/ai_4330014/pg_4 (833 words)

	The Sharpeville Massacre
		March 21, 1960: A large crowd of Black South Africans assembled in front of the Sharpeville police station to protest the pass laws imposed by apartheid.
		Suddenly, tensions were released: the crowd pelted the policemen with stones, and the edgy policemen retaliated with gunfire.
		In the Shadow of Sharpeville: Apartheid and Criminal Justice, Peter Parker and Joyce Mokhesi-Parker.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/sharpeville.php (216 words)

	SHARPEVILLE FEATURE - The Aftermath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It gives a very good overview of the Sharpeville massacre and its consequences.
		Dr Verwoerd, the Prime Minister, making a further statement about the riots, said the latest information was that 49 Bantus were killed and 156 wounded in the disturbances at Sharpeville Bantu Township near Vereeniging.
		At Sharpeville, Colonel Pienaar, in command of the police there, had to force his way through a crowd of about 20,000 Bantu who had surrounded the police station.
	sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/sharpevill/04_aftermath2.htm (689 words)

	Mario Pavone \| Sharpeville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Recorded fifteen years ago during the dark days of apartheid, this disc makes explicit reference to the particularly outrageous events that occurred in the South African Sharpeville Township.
		Sharpeville represents yet another high point in Pavone's strong discography.
		Personnel: Mario Pavone: bass; Marty Ehrlich: alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute and alto flute; Thomas Chapin: alto saxophone, flute and bass flute; Pheeroan Ak Laff: drums; Mark Whitecage: alto saxophone; Peter McEachern: trombone; John Betsch: drums.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=7378 (344 words)

	Sharpeville Massacre - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sharpeville Massacre - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		South Africa : warfare: Sharpeville Massacre – Vorster, Balthazar Johannes
		Search for books about your topic, "Sharpeville Massacre"
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	SharpVille Incident
		ShaRPeville Response from the U.S. Response of the U.N. Reddy Statement
		An incident took place in South Africa during the year of 1961 that was regarded as a critical turning point for the oppressed under the Apartheid Regime.
		It was labeled as the Sharpeville Massacre where police opened fired on a swarm of demonstrators that were protesting the despotic pass laws.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/awu/sharpville_incident.htm (421 words)

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