The PAC is commemorating the massacre which happened in 1960.
Archive image of men and women gathered at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960 without their pass books in protest against Pass Laws in South Africa.The Secretary-General of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, Apa Pooe, has described Sharpeville Day as a turning point in South Africa’s history. The PAC is commemorating the massacre that happened in 1960 when apartheid police shot and killed 69 protesters who were marching peacefully against discriminatory pass laws.
“Sharpeville Day, the Sharpeville massacre was a turning point in the history of the liberation of this country. It was as a result of Sharpeville Day that we had many political parties being banned. It was as a result of Sharpeville Day that many of our leaders went to prison. It was as a result of Sharpeville Day that the United Nations had to sit and declare apartheid as a crime against humanity.
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