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Shooting at Sharpeville: Agony of South Africa
Shooting at Sharpeville Agony of South Africa Author:Ambrose Reeves On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on members of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) protesting peacefully in the South African township of Sharpeville against apartheid's iniquitous 'pass laws'. Sixty-nine people died, many shot in the back. The shots fired that day in an obscure corner of South Africa reverberated around the world a... more »nd Sharpeville became the symbol of the evil of the apartheid system.
With 30 monochrome photographs taken before, during & after the shooting that shook South Africa. (some are graphic).