At the National Conference on the South Africa Crisis and American Action, Gladstone Ntlabati recounts the events at Sharpeville in March 1960 when police opened fire on protestors against the pass laws. He recounts many previous cases of violence against peaceful protest, under the pretext of anti-communism. Following the Sharpeville massacre, the South African regime adopted new laws that essentially ended the rule of law regarding political protest, replacing it with police-state tyranny. Ntlabati quotes Nobel Prize winner Albert Luttuli calling for full political rights for all South Africans regardless of race, as well as Robert Sobukwe and Nelson Mandela.
