Sharpeville massacre, 66 years on: Families still wait for justice
Sharpeville, South Africa – Paulina Mathinye was five years old when her father left home for a meeting near the police station in Sharpeville, a township south of Johannesburg.
Lawyers for Human Rights has filed an application in the Gauteng High Court challenging the continued existence of the Indemnity Act 61 of 1961, an apartheid-era law that the applicants say prevented survivors and dependants of those killed from pursuing civil and criminal proceedings arising from the massacre.
Paulina Mathinye was five years old when her father left home for a meeting near the police station in Sharpeville in 1960.
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