Tag Archives: Sharpeville massacre

Interview with Zephaniah Mothopeng

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Gavin Brown

What feels very current in the interview is Mothopeng’s repeated insistence that opposition to apartheid was not just about civil rights or democracy, but was fundamentally a struggle to decolonize South Africa Continue reading →

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Ken Bodden: anti-imperialist singer (1950 – 2013)

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Another former activist from the Non-Stop Picket died this week.  Ken Bodden, who during the time of the Non-Stop Picket worked politically under the name Ken Hughes, died on 20 October following a heart attack. Ken had experienced a number of … Continue reading →

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Remembering Sharpeville

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Gavin Brown

On 21 March 1960 69 unarmed protestors were shot dead by South African Police at Sharpeville.  They were participating in a demonstration called by the Pan-Africanist Congress against the pass laws, a central facet of the apartheid regime, that regulated … Continue reading →

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