Sharpville Massacre Questions 15 History GCSE Essay

Sharpville Massacre Questions 1-5 (History GCSE) Essay, Research Paper

Question 1

Sharpeville

1) In .what waysdo sources A+B agree about the events in Sharpeville on the

morning of 21stof March.

Source A is a primary sourcewritten by Humphery Tyler a Journalist from a

south African magazine. Source bis a secondary source, it is a report to an

English newspaper, a day after theshooting.

The two sources agree thatarmored cars Saracens were present as well as

police cars. Source A says thatthere was three Saracens armored cars present

earlier in the day while. B saysthere was a dozen Saracens. Source A ..big

gray police car and three Saracens....Source B ..About a dozen Saracens.... The

two source also agree that the policewere well armed. Source B ..police

reinforcements were sent there.... Source A: ..There were plenty of police,

too, well armed. A constable shoved his rifleagainst my window shield.... The

two sources both agree and say that the eventshappened in Sharpeville. Source

B starts the report with ..Around Sharpeville...,as too does source A ..we went

into Sharpeville the back way.... .Source A fails to mention the number

ofprotesters there. Just the vague description ..many people.... Though in

source Bthe account says that the police station was ..virtually besieged by

thousandsof Africans....

Tyler describes the day as ..ASunday outing.... He describes the crowd as

..grinning and cheerful.... He says thatchildren were present waving at the

police men ..Two even waved back.... Source Bdoes not mention this or anything

about the protesters emotions. Source B said..trouble was expected.... If

trouble was expected why were kids present, smilingand being happy. This does

not show any signs of trouble and the women andchildren present suggests that

the Africans did not expect trouble. Source Bdescribes in the report a

shooting in the morning .. which one African was killedand another seriously

wounded.... This was not mentioned in the source A.

Source A describes theprotesters Shouting Pan African saying ..Izwe Lethu...

which means our land. Theyare described as ..many people.... While source B

writes .. that they were virtuallybesieged by thousand s of Afrikaans shouting

...Africa, Africa.... This is a muchmore aggressive chant than our land, which

was described in source A. Thismakes the crowd look hostile. And with the

thousands of them makes them soundbad: aggressive.

Overall there are far moredisagreements than agreements. I feel that Source

B, the report published inthe English newspaper, was trying to justify their

actions more than give adescription of the events of the morning March 21st. .

..

Question2

Sharpeville

What are the similarities anddifferences between the two sources description

of the events in Sharpville onthe morning of 21st March.

The sources are bothphotographic, source C was in taken in the morning of

march 21st .Source D was taken on the same day but later at midday. Both

photos are of thecrowds of protesters at Sharpville.

Source C and D both show thecrowds .of African protesters and bothshow

vehicles, these are the main similarities. Source C is a picture takenbehind

the police and facing the protesters. Two policemen are sitting on topof a

Saracen in the open looking relaxed. Another policemen is walking pastthem.

Three Saracen armored cars are mentioned in source A of Tyler...s

account...Driving behind a big gray police car and three Saracen armored

cars.... Thoughin the picture I can only see one, this shows how photos are

limited in gettingthe full picture and can leave things out.

The police look very calm oneeven has his arms folded. The flaps on the

armored car are open and the vehicleappears to be stationary. As it can be

hard to tell if the actual photo is aaccurate reflection of the events shown.

Photographic evidence is the same asan eyewitness, but the accuracy of the

picture can be changed. Things can beblocked out, appearances of people can

be altered. There is know way of knowingthat the car is switched off, it

might be on and moving towards the protesters.We cannot see any weapons in

the picture, the only clue to the police beingarmed in the photo, are big

straps across their backs. Source A backs this insaying ..Police, too, well

armed... ..Shoved his rifle against my wind-shield...

The police are actingcautiously to have such a big cars present and large

police force their.Humphery Tyler describes what he saw .. Plenty of police....

This could be tointimidate the protesters, or to show that the police are

ready for any violentprotesters.

In source C protesters arefacing the camera and the police. They look calm

and relaxed in the warmmornings heat. Source A describes how the protesters

were behaving, earlier inthe day ..They were grinning and ch

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