A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dixon, Bill
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2015
Subjects:	South Africa Violence Police Marikana
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31635/

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