Abstract
This article provides a status of the issue on a key event in South Africa's history, the Sharpeville massacre of 21 March 1960 during the apartheid regime. It has been appropriate to include a section on historical background which helps to contextualize the episode. The re-visitation of the Sharpeville massacre is justified because 65 years later there is still no consensus on what happened. This paper aims to explain this historiographical debate, but also provides an interpretation that comes from comparing the existing versions with some primary sources, archival and oral, selected on the ground.