ActionSA believes that the best way to commemorate Human Rights Day and honour the lives of the 69 people who died in the Sharpeville Massacre on March 21, 1960, is to take action against the ...

SHARPEVILLE – Following an alarming rate of initiation gang related violence, the police, Gauteng Traffic Wardens (GTW), and initiation school leaders embarked on a tour in and around ...

In 1960, sixty nine people were shot dead in a protest against these pass laws, an event which became known as the Sharpeville massacre. In 1961, the Commonwealth made it clear that unless South ...

Many of those killed were shot while fleeing. The tragedy came to be known as the Sharpeville Massacre and it exposed the apartheid government’s deliberate violation of human rights to the world.

Magnum photographer Ian Berry was at the Sharpeville massacre in March 1960. In this video he relives the event that marked a defining moment for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

Forced to abandon peaceful protest for armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre, Mandela pays the price when he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his ...