Decolonization of Africa · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Boipatong massacre (1992)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Boipatong”
17 Jun 1992 — Hostel-dwellers, with apparent police complicity, kill 45 township residents. The massacre nearly collapses the talks — evidence of a “third force” stoking violence to derail the transition. Remember them.
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- End of apartheid (chapter 11 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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