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Sharpeville massacre
1960-03-21
Africa Media Online
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Just before the massacre started a Saracen goes through a crowd of chanting Africans at approximately one o'clock, Monday minutes later, some of these people were lying dead, while the Sarecen stood by watching for more trouble. (Photograph by Peter Magubane, Ian Berry, G.R.Naidoo and W. Calder BAHA)
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- Title: Sharpeville massacre
- Date: 1960-03-21
- Location: Sharpeville, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Subject Keywords: South Africa,Africa,Drum Magazine,violence,marching,killings,police brutality,protesters,police,black African people,Johannesburg,apartheid,Sharpeville Police Station,vertical,Sharpeville,black and white image,South African history,October,1960,1960s
- Original Source: Baileys African History Archive
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