An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its MassacreYale University Press, 1 de gen. 2001 - 263 pàgines On March 21, 1960, police opened fire on members of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) protesting peacefully in the Vaal Triangle township of Sharpeville against apartheid’s iniquitous 'pass laws.' Sixty-nine people died. The shots fired that day in an obscure corner of South Africa reverberated around the world, and Sharpeville became the symbol of the evil of the apartheid system. For a variety of reasons this seminal event has never been systematically documented. The Wessels Commission of Inquiry established to investigate the matter never published a formal and final report that was satisfactory to all the key players, and in the four decades since the shooting, the massacre has been so mythologized and contorted to serve various political interests that it precluded a thorough investigation. Philip Frankel’s book goes a long way toward correcting that deficiency. |
Continguts
Why Sharpeville? | 3 |
Ante Sharpeville and Early Apartheid | 23 |
Background | 25 |
The Massacre | 51 |
The Setting | 53 |
Contesting the Vaal The Police and the PAC 195960 | 55 |
Weekend 1820 March 1960 | 67 |
21 March Monday Morning | 83 |
Afternoon | 156 |
Did Sharpeville Have to Happen? | 168 |
Towards Democracy Sharpeville 19601999 | 181 |
Aftermath | 183 |
POSTSCRIPT | 213 |
NOTES | 220 |
APPENDICES | 229 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 248 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its Massacre Philip H. Frankel Visualització de fragments - 2001 |
An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its Massacre Philip Frankel Previsualització no disponible - 2001 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
21 March activists agenda anti-pass apartheid appeared applicable Not applicable armed arrest Assegai authorities Bantu beerhall behaviour black police Bliek Bophelong campaign casualties Commission of Inquiry Constable crowd dead demonstration despite developments Dippenaar Evaton fence forces Geelbooi Ibid immediate Johannesburg killings Knobkerrie Knobkerrie Not applicable Labuschagne later leaders mass mobilisation Monday morning municipal police Name Armament Fired native nearby normal Nyakane official organisers pass laws perpetrators personnel Pienaar policemen political popular Pretoria Prinsloo protest racial Rand Daily Mail recall Rifle 38 Pistol Robert Sobukwe Rounds x 303 Saracens Sebokeng security police senior Sergeant Sharpeville massacre Sharpeville Police Station Sharpeville Resident shooting shot simply situation slaughter Sobukwe social South Africa South African Police Spengler Sten Gun strategy streets struggle Topville township Tsolo Vaal Triangle Vanderbijl Vanderbijlpark Vereeniging Vereeniging Council victims violence Wessels white police Witwatersrand wounded
Referències a aquest llibre
Workplace Mobbing in Academe: Reports from Twenty Universities Kenneth Westhues Visualització de fragments - 2004 |
Desmond Tutu: Rabble-rouser for Peace, the Authorized Biography John Allen Previsualització limitada - 2008 |