Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences / Tom Lodge.
2011
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Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences / Tom Lodge.
Author
Lodge, Tom, 1951-
ISBN
9780192801852
0192801856
0192801856
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xix, 423 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DT1941 .L64 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
968.058
Summary
"On 21 March 1060 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the even has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred. In the light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission revelations, and drawing on significant new evidence including interviews with survivors, Lodge presents a reassessment of the crisis that led to the Massacre, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves"--Cover, p. 2.
An account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both domestically and in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
An account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both domestically and in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
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An account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both domestically and in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents
Voices from a massacre
Pan-Africanist preparations
The Sharpeville shootings
The Cape Town marchers
Aftermath: effects and consequences
The anti-apartheid movement
Sharpeville and memory.
Pan-Africanist preparations
The Sharpeville shootings
The Cape Town marchers
Aftermath: effects and consequences
The anti-apartheid movement
Sharpeville and memory.