Sharpeville massacre survivors start legal fight for justice in South Africa

The 1961 Indemnity Act was passed by the apartheid government in the wake of the massacre and protected the police and government from having criminal charges or even civil claims brought against them in relation to what happened at Sharpeville."We weren't seen as people," the 86-year-old tells the BBC as he explains the reasons he joined the demonstration on March 21, 1960, against the repressive laws of the white-minority government." The massacre at Sharpeville, which he survived, exposed to the world the violence of the racist apartheid system - yet thanks to an indemnity law passed a year after the killings, none of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted.