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Broken Narratives and Blurred Recollections. [Re]Constructing Sharpeville's Broken Memorial Landscape

Cindy Langa
University of Johannesburg
Cindy ’s project critiques the memorialization of the Sharpeville massacre. It proves how the memory of the massacre has been vandalized – narratively and physically – pre- and post-democracy. I argue that the blatant erasure of these narratives is an act of violence against the victims, and the surviving community of Sharpeville.
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