EFF observes Sharpeville Massacre Day
21 March 2021
The EFF observes the 21. of March 2021 as Sharpeville Massacre Day, on which hundreds of African people marched against the Apartheid government against the racist pass laws which regulated the movement of black people in their own land.
It was on this day in 1960, when the regime of terror massacred 69 people, and injured hundreds more, who defiantly stood against the government of the day led by the gallant PanAfricanist Robert Sobukwe, flooding the prisons of South Africa.
This day which the so-called former liberation movement seeks to numb down, as is the case with all days that expose the brutality of our history and that of the oppression of black people, must be remembered as a day of defiance against police brutality and repression.
Asa nation, we must reflect on the progress made since that dark occasion, and the conditions that define the life of the black majority. It is more poignant to note that it is 25-year anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of South Africa, a document heralded across the world as the most progressive yet it governs one of the most unequal societies in the world.