EVENT INFORMATION

28
Maart
1960

Mandela publicly burns his passbook

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Biografie ๐Ÿ“… 28 Maart 1960 ๐Ÿ“ Zuid-Afrika

During nationwide protest after Sharpeville, Mandela burned his passbook before journalists. Pass documents controlled where Black people could live, work, and travel under apartheid. The public act joined a mass refusal of the pass system and made the stateโ€™s everyday machinery of racial control visible to local and international audiences.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

African National Congress

anti-pass movement