On March 21 1960 at least 180 black South Africans were injured. There claims of many 300 and 69 killed when South African police opend fire on the backs of approxemately 300 demonstrators who were protesting against the pass law, at the town of Sharpeville near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. The event is popularly known as the Sharpeville Massacre. (http://www.sacoin.co.za/). Instead of honouring those who were murdered by police shooting fire on their backs 52 years ago, the African National Congress turned the occasion into a low level skirmish. They did not seek to unite the nation, instead they played petty party politics. Take note the 1960 Sharpeville protest was organised by the Pan African Congress. How and why the ANC managed to reap the rewards of this phase of the anti-apartheid struggle in the stuff of doctoral disserminations. Fact remains, the ANC triumphed. The final decision by the ANC of moving the main commemorations from Sharpeville to Kliptown was a slap in the face for the PAC, not forgeting the families of those affected by the shootings, for them this is a double aggrieved because they were not consulted about the shifting (The Citizen). After so many years of being the focus of Human Rights Day, the ANC should really have rethought their decision.
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What the ANC party did was wrong because they did not consult with the people
ReplyDeletethe ANC went about it the wrong way, but at the end of the day they're the rulling party and we put them in power.
ReplyDeleteas ANC will always be the rulling party but it has to maintain the relationship that it has with the public.it has take its followers serious and involve them in some decision because if it does not do that many Africans will no longer believe it.
ReplyDeletemotso i think change is good i think you would agree with me when i say when we grow up we chnage so i think the anc is simply trying to embrace change
ReplyDeleteYes Clive,change is good,but the anc must go on the right way when embracing it.They are not the only ones involved so they should consider other peoples concerns.
ReplyDeleteI think the whole thing is petty it doesn't matter who gets credit for the struggle, it will never matter who get's credit for any aspect of the sruggle. The only reason we are still unhappy is because we know what happened during the struggle will be in vein until South Africa trully is leberated from corruption, from racism from enequality from poverty, all this things.
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