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My Life my Struggle. Tom, Petrus
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Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA)
Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life Struggle', Ravan Press...
"The aeroplanes were flying high and low. The people were throwing their hats to the aeroplanes. They thought the aeroplanes were playing with them. They didn't realise that death was near. Fortunately for me, they (the police) could not shoot on the side where I was standing. That was how I managed to get away.
People were running in all directions. Some couldn't believe that people had been shot, they thought they had heard firecrackers. Only when they saw the blood and dead people, did they see that the police meant business."
- See more at: http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/eyewitness-accounts-sharpeville-massacre-1960#sthash.53qn3gHS.dpuf
Ravan Press, 1985, 1st edition, Very good Paperback, unmarked, 68 pp.