It is essential for South African people to learn about their history to understand how things came to be.

1. Subtopic: the
Sharpville
Massacre and
its impact
Term: 3&4
Grade:11
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2. Massacre
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3. Key concepts and definitions
• Massacre: A large scale killing of people or animals, especially
defenceless ones. The word implies that such killing in
unnecessary, brutal, and indiscriminate. An event in which
soldiers kill many civilians could be called a massacre.
• Apartheid: A policy or a system of segregation or discrimination
on grounds of race
• Pass laws: A body of laws that control where people can live,
work, and travel inside a country, that was used under the
system of apartheid

4. What led to the Sharpville Massacre

5. Massacre
• 300 police officers
• Police witness claim the crowd was
violent
• No need to shoot
• People fled
• Victims shot at the back

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7. Impacts
• Government isolated,
refused to abandon the
policy.
• State of emergency,
March 30,
• Burning pass laws
• ANC AND PAN
• 25OOO people arrested
• Un response to
apartheid