Nowhere on Parliament's website does it mention the name of Sobukwe despite the fact that he was the president and founder of the PAC and was instrumental in architecting the programme of action that led to the profoundly important protests.
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth”.
Parliament's website provides a brief history of the day, linking it to the events that took place in Sharpeville on the 21st of March 1960. On that day, 69 Black people died and 180 were wounded when apartheid police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered in protest against the draconian pass laws.
The second thing that the “Human Rights Day” narrative does is to completely de-centre black people from the conversation. The events of the 21 March 1960 were about the oppressions confronted by black people. They were about a diabolical system that dehumanised and de-civilised black people. The people who died in Sharpeville, in Langa and in many townships across South Africa following the banning of national liberation movements were black people.
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