Exposing SA’s secret massacre
A KZN-born academic and author has brought to light a lesser-known apartheid massacre that dwarfs Sharpeville, eight years earlier, in a book called Bloody Sunday that has just hit the shelves.
Between 80 and 200 people are believed to have been killed by police that day, after a meeting organised by the ANC Youth League. Two white people, including a Roman Catholic nun, were killed by mobs in retaliation. Yet few people know what happened, says author Mignonne Breier.
“It has not become part of the national discourse,” she told the Independent on Saturday in a telephone interview from Cape Town, where she is based at UCT.
The events took place on
