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Sharpeville Massacre.
Sharpeville Massacre. Sharpeville Massacre , incident in 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters. The confrontation occurred in the township of Sharpeville, in what is now Gauteng province, in northeastern South Africa. Following the election of the National Party to office in South Africa in 1948, a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid was introduced. Apartheid was designed toregulate the lives of the black majority and to maintain white minority ru...