We disagreed with the pass-laws as enemies against Africans so when I look at today, it becomes very painful to me because children of this country died and they are still dying because of apartheid.Gallo, B.T., K.A. “What was painful to us is the pass system, we called it the anti-pass campaign. They were massacred for standing up because human rights were an issue.”ĩ5-year-old Kholisile Mdledle was among those protesters and was also imprisoned for 16 years on Robben Island. For instance the holocaust, it’s not called anything else but the holocaust, so let us call March 21, 1960, what it is, it’s Sharpeville-Langa massacre that Azapo calls the heroes day so the PAC that we are with they call it, rightly so, the Sharpeville-Langa massacre day. So you can’t come and want to reshape history. “People were mowed down as if they were animals. It says naming it Human Rights day, is disrespectful to those that died for the cause of liberation. You can not have a proper education system that does not respond to your natural resources because education must be responding to what the society, the nation that is living there intends to achieve and the achievements of every society is dependent on their land.”Īzapo’s national spokesperson Gaontebale Nodoba says the day of 21 March itself must always be remembered as the Sharpville and Langa Heroes day. You can not discuss development when your mineral resources are still owned by foreigners.

PAC Deputy Secretary Victor Serakalala explains, “You can not discuss development when you do not have the ownership of the land. The PAC says there can be no discussion of human rights in a country where the vast majority still live in poverty and without land. PAC marks continued “landlessness” that people still experience today: In the aftermath, the PAC, led by Robert Sobukwe, and the ANC were forced underground. Ultimately, 69 people in Sharpeville and 6 in Langa were killed on 21 March 1960. The PAC’s call to action against the pass-laws saw tens of thousands respond with what should have been peaceful resistance.

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