A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana
(2015)
Journal Article
Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but... Read More about A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana.