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Officers opened fire on thousands of nonviolent black anti-apartheid protesters, killing 69 of them including 10 children. it was called the sharpville massacre, and it was such a significant moment in the struggle that 36 years later, mandela would travel to sharpville to sign the new south african constitution into law. sharpville changed something in nelson mandela and his colleagues in what was already at that time a long nonviolent movement for democracy. it led them to conclude mandela said that their policy to achieve a nonracial state through nonviolence had achieved nothing. mandela went on to co-found what would become the armed wing of the african national congress, spear of the nation which would commit its first attack on the government in december 1961. they explained their thinking in a manifesto, the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices, submit or fight. that time has now come to south africa. we shall not submit, and we have no choice ....

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