Sharpville & Apartheid Tour
21 March of 1960 became the turning point in South Africa’s History. 69 People were shot dead at Sharpville that day and those events contributed to the formation of Umkhonto Isizwe, the armed wing of the ANC and Communist party. The tour will take you to Sharpville, where you visit the scene of the shootings- the memorial and the Police Station. The story of that fateful day is told in graphic fashion. Thereafter continue to the Apartheid Museum. The background to Apartheid is given as well as examples of discrimination which had existed here since the 17th Century.
The early years of South Africa, the Zulu Wars, the South African War, the migrant Labour System, the Gold Mines, Miners strikes, Broederbond, Sophiatown, Sharpville, Liliesleaf, Freedom Charter, Treason Trial, Afrikaner Nationalism, life under Apartheid, Resistance, Violence from 1978- 1994, release of Nelson Mandela, CODESA, and the first democratic elections in 1994 all explained. After visiting this Museum visitors are fully aware of the effects of Apartheid on the country today.
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