Sharpeville massacre
The killings of March 1960 that set off the repression which closed South Africa's mixed jazz clubs and pushed a generation of musicians abroad. Mason writes that the apartheid state attacked jazz relentlessly in the repression that followed.
Connections
is associated with
- Hugh Masekela (1960) he left the country in the repression that followed
- Miriam Makeba (1960) her passport was cancelled in the aftermath
- apartheid era (1960) the repression after it closed the mixed jazz clubs