UNESCO adds apartheid massacre site to heritage protection list

The new listing is made up of 14 locations across South Africa grouped by UNESCO as "Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites". They include the scene of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre when police shot dead 69 black protestors, including children, in a turning point in the struggle that led the apartheid government to ban the African National Congress (ANC) that now governs. Also on the list is the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape province where anti-apartheid...