Sharpeville: A Massacre and Its Consequences - Tom Lodge
Reading such kinds of these books
will definitely going to highlight and inform all of the past struggle
events that took place right here on our shores during our past
apartheid years we have been. Not that we are igniting the old wounds to
be in action again since we have buried the hatchet, but it is loyally
acceptable to just take a look and reminisce about where we have left as
it makes us to be aware and be more of proud of those iconic heroes and
the dual participation of the inhabitants of the country at large for
having played the key fundamental role in playing that role of seeing
the new dawn of democracy. Talking about such of those moments of
reminisce, how about you draw that rich cultural history of our country
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this nature, will find ones like Sharpeville: A Massacre and Its
Consequences which was rivetingly compiled and authored by the legendary
author Tom Lodge which tells a tale of the heartache and struggle that the inhabitants of Sharpeville went through at that period of ear of the ‘60s.
And that fateful day that changed the lives of the people of
Sharpeville was in On March 21, 1960, a line of 150 white policemen
fired 1344 rounds into a crowd of several thousand people assembled
outside a police station, protesting against the Apartheid regime's
racist "pass" laws.
The
gunfire left in its wake sixty-seven dead and one hundred and eighty
six wounded. Most of the people who were killed were shot in the back,
hit while running away.
The Sharpeville
Massacre, as the event has become known, marked the start of armed
resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South
Africa's Apartheid policies. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and
why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political
background to the events of March 1960 as well as the long-term
consequences of the shootings. Lodge offers a gripping account of the
Massacre itself as well as the wider events that accompanied the
tragedy, particularly the simultaneous protest in Cape Town which helped
prolong the political crisis that developed in the wake of the
shootings.
Just as important, he sheds light on the long term consequences of
these events. He explores how the Sharpeville events affected the
perceptions of black and white political leadership in South Africa as
well as South Africa's relationship with the rest of the world, and he
describes the development of an international "Anti-Apartheid" movement
in the wake of the shootings. Even today marks one of the most
celebrated day in our country as it is inaugurated a public holiday
called the Human Rights day which deservingly needs to be celebrated in
the highest esteem since the people have been emancipated from that
period of apartheid resistance.
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