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The Sharpeville Massacre: Sixty years ago

60 years ago, on 21st March 1960, the world changed forever.   It was no longer possible to believe the avuncular Dr Verwoerd when he asserted that black people benefitted from apartheid, and that it was a policy of good neighbourliness.   It was the day on which the world became aware of the evil that was…

David Kenvyn's avatar by David Kenvyn April 11, 2024October 17, 2025

Boycott: the Role of the Anti-Apartheid Movement

On 26th June 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement was founded as the Boycott Movement. Its very purpose was to urge people and organisations not to purchase apartheid goods in any shape or form, not to trade with apartheid, not to profit from apartheid, not to play sports with racially selected teams, not to bank for apartheid,…

David Kenvyn's avatar by David Kenvyn April 11, 2024September 29, 2025

3rd ANC International Conference, Tshwane/Pretoria, October 2012.

Tuesday 23rd October My ANC watch’s battery had died on me. I took the watch to Crockett’s in West Nile Street, Glasgow, to get it repaired. The battery was replaced but in doing so the watch cover was broken. The man at Crockett’s said that he would try to get a replacement by the morning of Tuesday 23rd…

David Kenvyn's avatar by David Kenvyn February 9, 2024March 29, 2024
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