Historical Person

Philip Kgosana

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📍 South Africa

Philip Kgosana

Gender: Male

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Police shoot anti-pass protesters in Langa

📅 21 March 1960

Police violence also struck the anti-pass protest at Langa near Cape Town. Two people were killed and dozens wounded, placing Langa within the same national wave of resistance and repression as...

Philip Kgosana leads a mass march into Cape Town

📅 30 March 1960

An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people marched from surrounding townships into central Cape Town. Kgosana negotiated their peaceful dispersal, after which the state intensified repression.