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SANCO members marching
The South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) in the Sedibeng region has called for the reopening of the inquiry into the Sebokeng Massacre.
It says justice has never been fully served for the victims and their families.
Fourteen people were shot and killed on the 26th of March in 1990, while scores of others were injured, when an Apartheid government-sponsored death squad, the Civil Co‑operation Bureau (CCB), opened fire on protesters in Sebokeng.
At the time, an estimated 50 000 residents marched from Sebokeng to Vereeniging, protesting against a Tax‑based revenue system that benefited only white towns such as Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark, while black townships like Sebokeng remained underdeveloped and excluded from Municipal services.
SANCO Sedibeng Head of Heritage, Kabila Mngangane, says officers arrested were not charged.
“There was a commission that was instituted, the Goldstone Commission. Upon its investigation, it found five policemen who shot at people were arrested but never prosecuted, so we are still, as SANCO, pursuing that matter to find out what happened to the heroes of our struggle.”
