Title: Langa massacre
Content: crowd failed to comply immediately, police opened fire on the crowd, killing 35 people and leaving 27 wounded. The incident became known as the Uitenhage/Langa massacre. In March 1985, tensions between the African population in Uitenhage's townships and the apartheid government reached boiling point. Between 8 and 10 March, police reported 23 incidents of arson and 18 of stone-throwing, causing damage estimated at R220 000. Minister of Law and Order Louis le Grange, had visited Uitenhage with the commissioner of police, General Johan Coetzee, on 19 February. They had been told that ‘soft’ weaponry was no longer effective for riot

Title: Sharpeville massacre
Content: by the state to detain and harass its political opponents. The African National Congress (ANC) prepared to initiate a campaign of protests against pass laws. These protests were to begin on 31 March 1960, but the rival Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), led by Robert Sobukwe, decided to pre-empt the ANC by launching its own campaign ten days earlier, on 21 March, because they believed that the ANC could not win the campaign. On March 21, a group of between 5,000 and 10,000 people converged on the local police station in the township of Sharpeville, offering themselves up for arrest for not

Title: Sharpeville
Content: of their properties and land, and an amount of R60,000 per house was paid to all former residents or dependants. On 21 March 1960 the Sharpeville massacre occurred when the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) organised a protest in which black Africans attempted to hand in to police their Apartheid-required pass books which restricted them from going in certain areas. What had started as a peaceful protest soon became violent, as a result of which South African Police opened fire on the crowd. Sixty-nine black people were killed and 178 wounded by police during the violence. Sharpeville was also the site

Title: Sharpeville massacre
Content: Sharpeville massacre The Sharpeville massacre was an event which occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others. Sources disagree as to the behaviour of the crowd; some state that the crowd was peaceful, while others state that the crowd had been hurling stones at the police, and that the

Title: Alexandra, Gauteng
Content: the violent "Alex Six Days" uprising in February 1986. The uprising resulted from an attack by the security forces on a funeral in the township. 40 people were killed. The Alexandra Township Committee, led by trade unionist Moses Mayekiso, were arrested and beaten. Mayekiso was only released following a strike by metal workers. By May the council started collapsing and the councillors resigned which saw the emergence of street committees and peoples' courts. After the imposition of the nationwide state of emergency in June, the Defence Force moved in to keep the peace. In its place, the government introduced the

Question: In which township were 69 demonstrators killed by South "African police in March 1960?
Answer: Sharpeville