Six years later, the United Nations proclaimed the Sharpeville anniversary to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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(SINGING) Choirs sang in the cool Sunday morning as family members laid flowers at tombstones of the victims of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre.

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"The Sharpeville and Langa massacres were a tipping point in that they served to trigger off deep revulsion and disgust, both locally and internationally, against the apartheid government."

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Some likened Marikana to Sharpeville, where in 1960, police fired on a crowd of black demonstrators, killing 69.

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Within three years of Sharpeville he was pushed out of the church (though welcomed into the black arm of it).

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He helped draft a statement by churchmen that condemned the Sharpeville killings.

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