The Sharpeville Six
Author | : Prakash Diar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Prakash Diar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814766590 |
A history of the men who were sentenced to hang in South Africa following the death of a deputy-mayor in Sharpeville in 1984. The authors focus on the trial, sentencing, and subsequent international campaign that eventually led to their release after a stay of execution was ordered only 18 hours before the death sentence was to be carried out. Their exploration of the events also leads the authors into discussions of the way the criminal justice system in apartheid South Africa was biased against blacks. The source material for the book included countless interviews and letters written from Death Row. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Tom Lodge |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191617342 |
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves. He then broadens his focus to explain the long-term consequences of Sharpeville, explaining how it affected South African politics over the following decades, both domestically and also in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
Author | : Winston P. Nagan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781349146192 |
The authors take a scalpel to South Africa's system of criminal justice during the Apartheid era. They focus on the case of the Sharpeville Six to analyse how criminal justice was used to make convictions easy to secure. Analysing the technicalities of the criminal law, as well as the quality of evidence and judicial reasoning in the case against the Six, Parker and Mokhesi-Parker also convey vividly through letters from death row, the sense these people made of their impending executions and how an international campaign to save their lives succeeded with only 18 hours to spare.
Author | : Joyce Mokhesi-Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franziska Rueedi |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847012612 |
Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.