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	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)

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		The Sharpeville massacre, also known as the Sharpeville shootings, occurred on March 21, 1960, when South African police began shooting on a crowd of fl protesters.
		The Sharpeville massacre led to the banning of the PAC and ANC and was one of the catalysts for the foundation of Poqo, the military wing of the PAC.
		The Sharpeville Massacre - a watershed in South Africa, by The Rt.
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	Sharpeville Massacre - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the other hand, the Times article describing the Sharpeville massacre states that there was a desultory shooting in the morning of the day, on which the massacre happened and that this later prompted crowds to stone the police vehicles, at which point the police fired on them.
		It could therefore be concluded that the cause of the Sharpeville massacre was caused not only because 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 - a watershed in South Africa (http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/shareve.html), by The Rt.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sharpeville_Massacre (555 words)

	Sharpeville massacre
		The Sharpeville massacre, also known as the Sharpeville shootings, occurred on March 21, 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of fl protesters.
		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.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Sharpeville_Massacre (498 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for sharpeville
		Sharpeville massacre (21 March 1960) An incident in the South African township of Sharpeville.
		Sharpeville Black township, n of Vereeniging, South Africa, scene of a massacre by security forces in March 1960.
		Sharpeville anniversary: condemnation at UN, killings of demonstrators in South Africa.
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	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.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Massacre
		Amritsar massacre (13 April 1919) A massacre of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British troops in the city of Amritsar, Punjab.
		Katyn massacre A massacre in Katyn forest in the western USSR.
		Glencoe, Massacre of (13 February 1692) A massacre for political reasons of members of the Macdonald clan in Scotland.
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	Sharpeville Massacre
		On April 1, 1960, the United Nations Security Council sat to "consider seriously the apartheid colonial oppression of the African people in South Africa" Sharpeville marked a turning point in South Africa's history; the country found itself increasingly isolated in the international community.
		The aftermath of 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 Sharpville Massacre - a watershed in South Africa, by The Rt.
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	Sharpeville massacre remembered
		Sharpeville - Hundreds of Sharpeville residents on Wednesday converged at the George Thabe Stadium to commemorate the gunning down of 69 protesters by apartheid police 41 years ago.
		The day's events were marked by survivors of the Sharpeville massacre relating their experiences of that day, while poets and musicians added the spice to the programme.
		Share prices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange plummeted the day after the massacre, when it was reported by the media, foreign consulates were flooded with emigration queries and riots shook Johannesburg's townships.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,6935,2-1659_999296,00.html (349 words)

	Sharpeville Massacre
		The massacre (also euphemistically called the Dili Incident by the Indonesian government) was likened to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, in which unarmed protesters were also shot dead...
		Sharpeville Massacre The Sharpeville Massacre occurred on March 21, 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of fl protesters.
		The confrontation occurred in the township of Sharpeville...
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	Empowerment through Living Memory: A community-centred model for memorialisation
		Sharpeville was established as a township in the early 1940s and today remains amongst one of the areas whose history continues to be an integral part of the South African political landscape.
		Most people who were moved to Sharpeville resented the unattractive, regulated life of the township which was both incongruent as well as incoherent to people who were used to the urban vibrancy of life in Top Location.
		In a symbolic recognition of the atrocities that occurred in Sharpeville during the apartheid era, the South African Constitution was signed on 10 December 1996 at the George Thabe Stadium in Sharpeville.
	www.csvr.org.za /papers/papnaid3.htm (6028 words)

	Entrance essays on The Sharpeville Massacre in the growth of international anti-apartheid resistance.
		Entrance essays on The Sharpeville Massacre in the growth of international anti-apartheid resistance.
		Evaluate the significance of the Sharpeville Massacre in the growth of the international anti-apartheid movement to 1994.
		Hence the conglomerate forces of sanctions, embargoes and boycotts of all forms after the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 led to demise of apartheid and the establishment of a racially democratic nation, led by the previously imprisoned Nelson Mandela.
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	THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE 1 &From "Notes and Documents", No. 8/76, March 1976&
		The savage massacre of African patriots at Sharpeville and other places in South Africa on March 21, 1960, is of paramount significance in the struggle against apartheid and needs to be understood in its historical scope.
		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.
		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.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/misc/sharplle.html (5872 words)

	Sharpeville
		Sharpeville is one of the oldest of six townships in the Vaal Triangle.
		Sharpe was elected to the Vereeniging Town Council in 1932 and held the position of mayor from 1934 to 1937.
		On March 21 1960, Sharpeville saw the horrific deaths of 69 people who were shot during what was intended to be a peaceful anti-passbook demonstration.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /vaal_triangle/towns/sharpeville_1.htm (367 words)

	Dili massacre Summary
		The Dili massacre (also known as the Santa Cruz massacre) was the shooting of East Timorese protesters, in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991.
		The massacre was eyewitnessed by two American journalists—Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn—and caught on videotape by Max Stahl, who was filming undercover for Yorkshire Television in the UK.
		The massacre (also euphemistically called the Dili Incident by the Indonesian government) was likened to the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, in which unarmed protesters were also shot dead, and which saw the apartheid regime subjected to international condemnation.
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		Reverend Ambrose Reeves -- a commentary on the confontation between the Police and fl protesters in 1960 which led to the banning of the ANC and the was a turning point in the struggle for freedom in South Africa.
		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.
		But in another sense they were both intimately connected because more indirectly they both arose out of the action of those in power during the previous decade, who had taken every possible step to ensure that the whole life of the millions of Africans was encased within the strait-jacket of compulsory segregation.
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	Sharpeville - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		It was the scene of a massacre of antiapartheid demonstrators in 1960.
		Sharpeville Massacre, incident in 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of fl protesters.
		South Africa : warfare: Sharpeville Massacre – Vorster, Balthazar Johannes
	encarta.msn.com /Sharpeville.html (121 words)

	Pass Laws
		One of the main repercussions that pass laws had was the Sharpeville Massacre.
		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)

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		SHARPEVILLE, South Africa (AP) _ They were not the big-names of the struggle against apartheid, their stories did not make the headlines.
		Masilo, 62, was in the crowd of demonstrators shot upon by apartheid police in the town of Sharpeville in 1960.
		What became known as the Sharpeville massacre was a turning point in the struggle against apartheid, exposing the oppressive reach of the regime.
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		Sharpeville Massacre 1960, Inzamam and the End of a Glorious CareerThe Sharpeville Massacre was also greeted by international protests.
		Sharpeville MassacreThe Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa’s Apartheid policies.
		Leading up to the Sharpeville massacre, the Apartheid-supporting National Party government under the leadership of Hendrik Verwoerd used these laws to enforce greater segregation,[1] and had recently been extended by the National Party to include women.
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	Mandela turns Sharpeville into a shrine to rights
		At a ceremony in Sharpeville township, where white policemen shot dead 69 fl protesters in 1960, he called on South Africans to uphold the ideals of liberty for which the demonstrators died.
		Among them were survivors of the 1960 massacre that set the African National Congress on the road of violent protest.
		As a small group of them mounted the podium as guests of honour, the mayor of Sharpeville joked that they were there to keep "a watchful eye" on Mr Mandela to see that he upheld the values of the constitution.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/12/11/wman11.html (819 words)

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		To honour those lives lost during the Sharpeville shooting and to all those who died for the liberation of South Africa, the Sharpeville Memorial was opened on 21 March 2002, a day now known as Human Rights Day.
		Sharpeville to the Constitution play (explains the removal of residents from Top Location in Vereeniging to Sharpeville, the Pass Laws, the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 and the signing of the Constitution in Sharpeville in 1996)
		The exhibition tells the story of the Sharpeville Massacre (21 March 1960) and the reason why Sharpeville was chosen as the venue for the Signing of the New Constitution.
	www.routes.co.za /gp/museums/vaaltek/index.html (1509 words)

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		News of the Sharpeville massacre was immediately available: many people had witnessed the events or had heard about them via reports by police and journalists, even though the police did make an effort to block information flow.
		After the Sharpeville massacre, a commission of inquiry was held and, through its assumptions and superficial investigation, minimised the implications of the events.
		In the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre, the government moved immediately to set up an official inquiry, in part "to head off any sympathy demonstrations and protests that could reasonably be expected in the wake of public reaction."[35] Formal inquiries, once established, take time, so that passions, kindled after an outrageous event, cool.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/04epw.html (6779 words)

	Sharpeville - Find in a Library: Sharpeville \| English Book \| OCLC WorldCat
		The savage massacre of African patriots at Sharpeville and other places in South Africa on March 21, 1960, is of paramount significance in the struggle
		Sharpeville Massacre, incident in 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of fl protesters.
		The Massacre at Sharpeville, the township outside Vereeniging on the banks of the Vaal River, on March 21, 1960 made headlines throughout the world.
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	Sharpeville - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sharpeville is fl township set up by the then apartheid government in southern Gauteng, South Africa between two large industrial cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging.
		On March 21 1960 the Sharpeville Massacre occurred when the South African police opened fire on fl civilians protesting the abhorred pass laws.
		The pass laws restricted them to certain areas and forced them to carry passes at all times.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sharpeville (111 words)

	The Sharpeville Massacre: Deaths not in Vain
		The white authorities claimed the massacre was an accident, but the PAC leaders did not accept that explanation or the lack of apology that accompanied it.
		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.
		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.
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