A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana
Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but both involved the use of lethal violence by the po...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31635/ |