SANTO | Socialist Action 1983

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or charges, sales SHARPVILLE. On Monday, demonstrators began to gather in townships in different parts of South Africa determined to surrender their hated passes and demanding to be jailed.

In Sharpville, a black township south of Johannesburg, a crowd of several thousand gathered early in the morning, forming a procession three-quarters of a mile long.

They explained to the police that they wanted to be arrested for not carrying their passes. The police responded with tear gas and baton charges.

Shortly after 1.30pm, without any warning, the police began shooting. The crowd started laughing thinking that blanks were being used.

The laughter quickly turned into terror as bodies started falling. When the shooting stopped, the area around the police station was cluttered with bodies.

According to the official count there were 67 killed in Sharpville that day, and more than 180 injured.

The majority of them were shot in the back.

cases in prices and rents.

councillors, responded by shooting at demonstrators through a window.

The marchers stoning and burning councillors houses.

vere increases in As black y the apardistances casualties at nearer 300.

the inauguration tion of the liberation struggle.

conflict in the coming period.

21 March, 1960, for the five kand -two: and, the one million the twenty 3 September was a protest when residents away from work and staged a march to dedan explanation for the steep The march started peacefully bulwhen they approached the house of one of the stooge town Caesar • Montjeane, and called on him to come out he the retaliated, by This brought the police onto the seene, complete with not gear, tear gas, sjamboks, dogs, plastic bullets and live ammunition. The official police report puts the death toll at 26 but AZAPO puts the number of The same week which marked of President Boths's new "liberal' constitution has witnessed a sharp intensificaThere can be no doubt that the apartheid state is set for a major

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