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Sharpeville
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Sharpeville Black township, n of Vereeniging, South Africa, scene of a massacre by security forces in March 1960. A large gathering of...
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Mandela, Nelson
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...South African government had outlawed the ANC. This move followed events at Sharpeville in 1960, when police fired on a crowd of unarmed protesters. Sharpeville had made it clear that the days of nonviolent resistance were over. In 1961...
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...arrested again during the state of emergency which followed the Sharpeville shootings in 1960. Both the Pan-Africanist Congress...demonstrations which led to the shootings, and the ANC were banned. Sharpeville had made it clear that the days of nonviolent resistance...
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Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...few places where the turnout was heavy, the township of Sharpeville, the police fired on the crowd, killing 67 and wounding...profoundly altered South African history. In the aftermath of the Sharpeville killings, the government declared a state of emergency...
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Andre Philippus Brink
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...perspective, and that only happened when I was living in Paris, between 1959 and 1961, at the time of the Sharpeville massacre. Sharpeville was the shock that forced me to see what was happening in my country, with the clarity that distance can...
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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...from land they owned in so-called white areas followed. Sharpeville Massacre Rebellions broke out in some rural reservations...Laws. The police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators at Sharpeville, killing 83 and wounding 365. A state of emergency was...
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Oliver Reginald Tambo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...overseas. He was therefore out of the country when, after the Sharpeville and Langa shootings in 1960 in which police killed nearly...Tambo had to cope with a variety of difficulties. After the Sharpeville shooting, the ANC concluded that peaceful protest against...
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Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...splitting away of the Pan Africanist Congress under Robert Sobukwe, followed by violent police repression culminating in the Sharpeville massacre of June 1960. Defying house arrest, Sisulu joined Mandela and others in an underground organization called Umkonto...
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Tutu, Desmond
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...participate in businesses) — actions which ultimately helped blacks little. In 1960, after police fired on a crowd at Sharpeville, South Africa, killing sixty-nine and wounding many others, and after the ANC leader Nelson Mandela (1918 –...
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Apartheid
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...passes, the hated government control document carried by all Africans. Following widespread demonstrations protesting the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 — in which sixty-nine unarmed Africans were shot after responding to a PAC call to turn in passes...
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