Blood in the backstreets
When impoverished people trying to access water or land are killed by the police, the whole of society is complicit in these contemptuous murders committed by the state. Speaking to the press shortly before the non-violent protests against the pass laws planned for 21 March 1960, Pan Africanist Congress president Robert Sobukwe declared that “we have sworn that we are leading them, not to death, but to life abundant.” The fact that 69 people lost their lives at the hands of the state in Sharpeville that day, and another…
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