The challenges of teaching the history of South Africa’s brutal past (The South African) by Philippe Alfroy, 26 April 2019
On Saturday, 27 April, South Africa will celebrate Freedom Day, the on which South Africa held its first democratic elections. But the events that unfolded before that monumental day were grim.
Black-and-white pictures were projected onto the wall of a South African classroom and gospel music played evocatively in the background.
The pictures told a chilling tale: Angry protesters. Policemen beating crowds. Corpses lying scattered on the road. Coffins piled up.
Sharpeville Massacre
The date of these events – 21 March 1960 – is etched in the annals of history.