SA’s hidden apartheid massacre
IN A book called Bloody Sunday, a KZN-born academic and author has brought to light a lesser-known apartheid massacre that was more deadly than Sharpeville, and occurred eight years earlier.
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
