JOHANNESBURG - South Africa commemorates Human Rights day on Friday.
But let’s not forget it was originally Sharpeville day in remembrance of the Sharpville massacre on March the 21st 1960 when police fired on a crowd of black demonstrators, killing about 70 and wounding 180. Women and children were among the victims.
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Some 20 thousand people had gathered near a police station at Sharpville, South of Johannesburg, to hand over their pass books.
The violence of the apartheid police was on display and it is seen as a turning point that helped the world wake up to the human rights violations being committed in South Africa.
Gogo Tsoana Nhlapo from the Sharpville Foundation had a sit-down with eNCA to talk more this historical event and its commemoration.