The Only Photographer Who Captured the Sharpeville Massacre Has Died

The world has lost a witness to history. The man who took the famous photos of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa has passed away.

A very important photographer has died. He was the only person with a camera at the Sharpeville Massacre. This event happened in South Africa in 1960. At the time, the government in South Africa had a system called apartheid. This was a system that treated Black people much worse than white people. People were protesting against unfair rules that forced them to carry papers everywhere they went. These papers were like ID cards that restricted where they could move. Police officers opened fire on the crowd. They killed 69 people. It was a terrible tragedy. Because this photographer was ther…