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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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