It does seem to be bad news week for those from the left.

What video?

I've travelled to South Africa many times and seen the ANC evidence and artifacts displayed in Howick - suggest you make a visit before embarrassing yourself even  further

Thank you, I stand corrected.

He was initially a peaceful demonstrator, I was not sure about his activity after the "police killing of unarmed protestors in the "Sharpeville massacre 1960".

Wiki.

--"The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960 at the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa (today part of Gauteng). After demonstrating against anti-black pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 black protesters went to the police station. Sources disagree as to the behaviour of the crowd: some state that the crowd was peaceful, while others state that the crowd had been hurling stones at the police and that the mood had turned "ugly". The South African Police (SAP) opened fire on the crowd when the crowd started advancing toward the fence around the police station; tear-gas had proved ineffectual. There were 249 victims in total, including 29 children, with 69 people killed and 180 injured. Some were shot in the back as they fled"--

The demonstrators / protestors included women and children.

Once again the events around Sharpeville have to be remembered and as always are in dispute. A month or so  before a protesting crowd had killed nine policemen(four white and nine black) in Durban and the police in Sharpeville were at best edgy and wary of any movement towards the police station most especially in a threatening manner. It is clear from the video that some in the crowd were carrying knobkerries or similar and arguments persist on whether stones were thrown. My understanding is that some of the police were black in Sharpeville and there is little doubt the crowd were at best threatening. Similar can be recalled where  striking miners were fired upon as they advanced on police with raised sticks a few years back.

That mixed bunch of unarmed protesters never looked like a dangerous bunch looking for trouble. You are entitled to ignore what you see if that's what you wish to do. 


When I last visited South Africa I did the Penguins, the inside of a cage to visit the Great white sharks, A reasonably local vineyard etc. On one visit I stayed at a Safari Camp, excellent meals and surroundings open 24 hours a day so one needed to to wait for the all clear knock on your accommodation before venturing forth in the morning and to be careful when entering or leaving the camp and a quite interesting visit to the lions in an open backed Rover. What people do in South Africa is of course down to their own interests.

Realistically you do not know what the police either knew or believed but we do know that they did know policemen had been killed by an 'unarmed' group of protestors anmonth before. No doubt both sides played the propaganda game. Unarmed peaceful protestors cut down by dictatorial police to maintain law and order against violent threatening protestors throwing stones and assaulting police officers. No doubt the truth is a mix of all and somewhere in between. However the actions of mainly black police against black miners at Marikana indicates that not much has changed. 

Similar to Marikana where most miners were shot in the back. Once the firing starts then it is difficult to get it stopped and if you fire at an individual attacking you and miss then the shot may find another target. I am not excusing merely pointing out that things are never as cut and dried as some would have us believe and returning to Mandela there is little doubt from all the available evidence he supported the armed struggle which involved terrorist activity including bombs and necklacing. Yet he has a statue in London unmolested a few summers back by most protestors  who  were busy daubing and vandalising many statues. Strange when Mandela's statue was attacked it became a hate crime.

The video blows a great big hole in you repeatedly insinuated attempts to make the protesters appear as mostly bad people who caused themselves to be shot at by the police.

An obvious point of view that you oddly describe as odd.