Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16 August 2012. The parallels between the two massacres are easy to overstate; but both involved the use of lethal violence by the police against people taking part in insurrectionary action. Bill Dixon, University of Nottingham, discusses.

Image courtesy of interviewee. September 18, 2017