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The Afrikaner poet Ingrid Jonker mentioned the Sharpeville Massacre in her verse. The event was an inspiration for painter Oliver Lee Jackson in his Sharpeville Series from the 1970s. [24] Ingrid de Kok was a child living on a mining compound near Johannesburg where her father worked at the time of the Sharpeville massacre. In her poem "Our ...
English: The marker/badge used to show the protected status of the graves of those who died in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. The graves are in Phelindaba Cemetery in Sharpeville. The graves are in Phelindaba Cemetery in Sharpeville.
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It's been 60 years since the massacre of 69 unarmed civilians by the South African apartheid state. Here's how the killings changed the way the world thinks about human rights.
Ian Berry (born 1934) is a British photojournalist with Magnum Photos.He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. . He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence.
He was among the photographers who captured the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. [2] In 1963, while working for Drum, he was selected together with Harry Mashabela to go and shoot a story about African students in the Iron Curtain countries. The two made the front cover of the next edition of the magazine, "Drum men go to Europe".
Langa massacre: 1985-03-21 Uitenhage, Eastern Cape: 35 killed The South African Police shot at a crowd of funeral-goers stopped by them on Maduna Road in Uitenhage, on the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. The first shot was at a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle who joined the crowd from a side street and lifted his hand in a Black Power salute
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