Beyers Naudé
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Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was nicknamed Oom Bey.
Naudé in 1972
Part of Beyers Naude Square in 2016
Sharpeville massacre
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The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Provi
Beyers Naudé
…for apartheid. On 3 August 1940 Naudé married Ilse Weder, whose father had been a Moravian missionary. The couple had three sons and a daughter. The Sharpeville massacre in 1960 (during which the South African police killed 69 black demonstrators protesting against restrictions on their freedom of movement) ended his…
Victims lying on the ground after police opened fire on a crowd of protesters
Demonstrators discarding their passbooks to protest apartheid, 1960
The row of graves of victims of the Sharpeville massacre, in Phelindaba Cemetery, Sharpeville
Painting depicting victims of the massacre, by Godfrey Rubens on display at the South African consulate in London