In the Shadow of Sharpeville, Apartheid and Criminal Justice

The authors take a scalpel to South Africa’s system of criminal justice throughout the Apartheid age. They focus on the case of the Sharpeville Six to analyse how criminal justice was utilized to make convictions easy to protect. Analysing the technicalities of the criminal law, as well as the quality of evidence and judicial thinking in the case against the Six, Parker and Mokhesi-Parker likewise communicate vividly through letters from death row, the sense these people made of their approaching executions and how a global project to save their lives succeeded with only 18 hours to spare.

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