When the apartheid state security apparatus unleashed its violence in Sharpeville in 1960, sixty-nine people were left dead. It was a traumatising episode in the struggle for black rights and racial equality in South Africa. Ye...
On 16th August 2012 striking South African miners ran towards a line of police who were pointing automatic rifles at them. They were gunned down. At least 34 protesting workers were killed at the platinum mine northwest of Joha...