The killings go on even in a democracy
TODAY, South Africa is commemorating Human Rights Day, when on March 21, 1960, in what is known historically as the Sharpeville Massacre, apartheid police mowed down 69 unarmed men, women and children during a protest against pass laws that was organised by the PAC under the leadership of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.
Mass killings, police brutality and the violation of human rights were common during the apartheid era.
Even on the eve of a new dawn, they never stopped. The Boipatong massacre and the Munsieville killings are two examples of murders committed by the police during the transition period, when the
