 | African Massacre African Massacre Rwanda and S.Leone |
 | South African Armed Robbery (Hi-Res CCTV) A good old fashioned stick up, South African style, nobody was hurt, but watching how people ignore the robbers at first gives you an idea as to how these things can quickly go bad. |
 | South African Police http://sapolicephotos.multiply.com/ SAPS Durban Flying Squad respond to a shooting incident in Glenwood, Durban. Also footage of a shooting scene where Durban Flying Squad had chased a hi-jacked Toyota Cressida and were involved in a shoot-out with the suspects. SAPS Riot Unit and other police units attend the scene. Whilst the scene was being filmed a suspect opened fire on police officers. |
 | Historic Photos These are the most important photos of the 20th and 21st century. A beautiful collection compiled by Magnum Photos. It includes (in order): CERRO MURIANO, Spain—Federico Borrell Garcia, Spanish loyalist militiaman, collapses into death, 1936. FRANCE—D-Day, Omaha Beach, 1944. HIROSHIMA, Japan—The center of the atomic bomb blast. A Japanese soldier walks through a site where an army barracks once stood, 1945. POLAND—Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She has drawn a picture of "home" on the blackboard, 1948. KORDOFAN, Sudan—The Nubas, 1949. NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950. NEW YORK—James Dean alone in Times Square, 1955. SANTA CLARA, Cuba—Fidel Castro lifts a young admirer during the revolution, 1959. MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon's kitchen debate, 1959. SHARPEVILLE, South Africa—Police open fire on a crowd, killing more than 70 and injuring hundreds of others during what came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre, 1960. CHICAGO—Malcolm X, 1961. ARLINGTON, Va.—Jacqueline Kennedy at John Fitzgerald Kennedy's funeral, Nov. 25, 1963. WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his "I Have A Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!", 1963. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A female protester being arrested and led away by police, 1963. SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966. ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967. SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968. PARIS—Students hurl projectiles during the May 1968 student protest. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia—Warsaw Pact troops invade Prague near the radio headquarters, 1968. MATAGALPA, Nicaragua—Muchachos await counterattack by the Guard, 1978. MEXICO—Mexicans are arrested while trying to cross the U.S. border, 1979. PESHAWAR, Pakistan—An Afghan girl at Nasir Bagh refugee camp, 1984. NEW BRIGHTON, United Kingdom—1985. TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986. CONEY ISLAND, N.Y.—A family walks along the crowded boardwalk, 1986. BERLIN—A young man bridges the wall between East and West Berlin, 1989. BEIJING, China—Tiananmen Square, 1989. SAN FRANCISCO—AIDS at the Ambassador Hotel. James has been living with AIDS since 1985. He moved into the hotel three years ago. It's the longest time he has lived anywhere, 1993. BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Young people watch a huge plume of smoke rise from lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001. GAZA STRIP—A Palestinian man prays in Khan Younis camp. He awaits permission to pass through an Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Gush Oatif, 2003. IRAQ—An American soldier is killed during the battle for Baghdad, April 8, 2003. |
 | Looting, Violence in South Africa Looting, violence in South Africa |
 | SADF 1980's Rare footage of the S.A.D.F out on maneuvers in the bush, it was a kick ass army on the continent of Africa during the 1970's & 80's...now its known as the SANDF and a mere shadow of its former self. If there was a problem in the "bush" SADF could solve it. |
 | South Africa State of Emergency 1980's Rare footage of the increasing civil unrest and township violence that led to the government declaring a State of Emergency on 20 July 1985, giving it the power to deal with resistance to apartheid. More human rights were violated during this period than ever before. It became a criminal offence to threaten someone verbally or possess documents that the government perceived to be threatening. It was illegal to advise anyone to stay away from work or oppose the government. It was illegal, too, to disclose the name of anyone arrested under the State of Emergency until the government saw fit to release that name. People could face up to ten years' imprisonment for these offences. However, although the government increased its repressive measures, it was not enough to secure a lasting position in power. Then-President P.W. Botha declared the State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts. Areas affected were the Eastern Cape, and the PWV region ("Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging"). Three months later the Western Cape was included as well. During this state of emergency about 2,436 people were detained under the Internal Security Act. This act gave police and the military sweeping powers. The government could implement curfews controlling the movement of people. The president could rule by decree without referring to the constitution or to parliament. Four days before the ten-year commemoration of the Soweto uprising, another state of emergency was declared on 12 June 1986 to cover the whole country. The government amended the Public Security Act, expanding its powers to include the right to declare certain places "unrest areas". This allowed the state to employ extraordinary measures to crush protests in these areas. Television cameras were banned from entering "unrest areas". The state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) provided propaganda in support of the government. This version of reality was challenged by a range of pro-ANC alternative publications. In 1989, with the State of Emergency extended to a fourth year, Prime Minister Botha met Mandela and agreed to work for a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country. Talks commenced with the ANC, prominent business leaders, the Commonwealth and the Eminent Persons Group. The state of emergency continued until 1990, when F.W. de Klerk became the State President, and lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid groups the African National Congress, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and the South African Communist Party. He also made his first public commitment to release jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, returned to press freedom and suspend the death penalty. The rest is history... |
 | Sharpeville Semi_Documentary |
 | Today in History for Friday, March 21st Highlights of this day in history: Civil rights marchers head from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; The Sharpeville massacre takes place in South Africa; Randall Dale Adams released from a Texas prison; Composer Johann Sebastian Bach born. (March 21) |
 | black perspectives Nur Pasha makes a video of different skin colors or a project for school.An ancient African proverb that says "It takes a village to raise a child" reflects the importance of family and community involvement in the lives of children. According to the Census Bureau, over 70% of African American children are being raised in single parent homes. Crime, incarceration, illiteracy and drug abuse continue to perpetuate the issue and the future of our next generation lies in the hands of "the village". Become empowered with knowledge that can inspire you to help create change!The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the decimation of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership, by jailing and banning, after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.[2]. The BCM represents a social movement for political consciousness. "Black Consciousness origins were deeply rooted in Christianity. In 1966, the Anglican Church under the incumbent, Archbishop Robert Selby Taylor, convened a meeting which later on led to the foundation of the University Christian Movement (UCM). This was to become the vehicle for Black Consciousness."[3] From its onset, the BCM aggressively launched an attack on traditional White values, especially the 'condescending' values of Whites of liberal opinion. They refused to engage White Liberal opinion on the pros and cons of Black Consciousness, and emphasized the rejection of White monopoly on truth as a central tenet of their movement. While this philosophy at first generated some heat amongst Black anti-Apartheid activists within South Africa, it was in short order adopted by most as a positive development. As a result, there emerged a greater cohesiveness and solidarity amongst black groups in general, which in turned propelled Black Consciousness to the forefront of the anti-Apartheid struggle within South Africa.[4] -- Pages 47-48. The BCM's policy of perpetually challenging the dialectic of Apartheid South Africa as a means of conscientizing Black brought it into direct conflict with the full force of the Security Apparatus of the Apartheid regime. "Black man, you are on your own" became the rallying cry as mushrooming activity committees implemented what was to become a relentless campaign of challenge to what was then referred to by the BCM as 'the System'. It eventually sparked a confrontation on June 16, 1976 in the Soweto uprising, when at least 200 people were killed by the South African Security Forces, as students marched to protest the use of the Afrikaans language in African Schools. Unrest spread like wildfire throughout the country. The Black revolution in South Africa had begun. However, although it successfully implemented a system of comprehensive local committees to facilitate organized resistance, the BCM itself was decimated by security action taken against its leaders and social programs. By June 19, 1976, 123 key members had been banned and confined to remote rural districts. In 1977 all BCM related organizations were banned, many of its leaders arrested, and their social programs dismantled under provisions of the newly Implemented Internal Security Amendment Act. In September 1977, its banned National Leader, Steve Biko, was murdered while in the custody of the South African Security Police.[5][6] |
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