hgs25. Save the Sharpeville Six Declaration

SATIS (Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society) collected signatures to this Declaration demanding that the South African Government withdraw the death sentences imposed on the Sharpeville Six. The six, five men and one woman, were sentenced to death in December 1985 after joining a demonstration at which a black deputy mayor was killed. The Declaration was circulated in the run-up to the appeal against the death sentences, scheduled for 10 September 1987. The appeal was rejected but the six were reprieved in July 1988.