ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 examines the impact of the Sharpeville massacre on the development and growth of a worldwide anti-apartheid movement originating with African and Asian nations and eventually spreading to include Europe, the United States, South America, and the “White” Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand). The role of the Sharpeville people themselves as the original narrators of what happened on 21 March 1960 is emphasised in contrast to a historiography that has ignored them and has focused solely on the “event” of the massacre as if no individuals could be identified and as if they had never told their own stories.
