Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle will on Friday, 06 June 2014 address the 54th commemoration of the Ingquza Hill Massacre which claimed the lives of 11 innocent AmaMpondo as well as those who were arrested and later hanged in the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison in 1960. You can imagine the brutality of this tragedy. A few months before 06 June 1960, South Africa and the world had witnessed Sharpeville Massacre on the 21st March 1960. At its 851st meeting on the 30th March 1960, the UN Security Council met to express its outrage on the loss of lives of those in Sharpeville and Langa emanating from the Secretary General Report S/4279 /60. If you recall this was the Anti - Pass Law period in our History as well as the Defiance Campaign.The Freedom Charter had just been adopted 5 years before in Kliptown on the 26 June 1955. Yet, the brutal Apartheid regime mowed down peaceful demonstrators; which made the world take note and pay attention to the Question of Apartheid South Africa. You would have thought too that after that Security Council Meeting post Sharpeville, the Apartheid Regime would have listened, sadly, their hearts were hardened. For their part, amaMpondo have solemnly observed this day, since that Massacre in 1960. Our government came on board in 2010 and since then, the day has started gaining some national prominence at the O.R.Tambo District. Are you from Ingquza or nearby villages, were your family members involved? Do you know the history of the Ingquza massacre except for that which is available online. Please share with us at the Office of the Premier on what you wish the Premier, should touch on, on Friday, so that this kust not become, another speech, another commemoration.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:11:11 +0000
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