DM2004011404:SAED:POLITICS:OCT1960 - Five Months Nightmare - Sharpeville massacre. After the people's protest; after the Sharpeville killings; after 20 000 people had been detained; the government closed another chapter in our countries history. There was to be no change. Apartheid and baasskap was here to stay. (Photograph by Peter Magubane, Ian Berry, G.R.Naidoo and W. Calder © BAHA) Villagers flee the centre of the village where the police have opened fire on them, trying to protect themselves from the bullets by putting their coats over their head. Sharpeville, Transvaal.
Authors
- Country
- South Africa
- Credit Notice
- Drum / Drum Social Histories / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures
- Date published
- 10-1960
- External ID 1
- APN32438
- Image Number
- APN32438
- Province or State
- Gauteng
- Published in
- Johannesburg
