605-619 (15 pages) Equating a 'turning point' with what William Sewell terms an 'event', it is argued that Marikana is a turning point in South African history. The massacre was a rupture that led to ...

TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule ... US in the Korean war and as a test pilot before he made history as the first person to walk on the Moon’s surface.