South Africa. Gauteng. Sharpeville. 2019. A mural on the wall outside the memorial grounds to the Sharpeville Massacre. commemorating the Sharpeville Six. Memorial groundsman Reid Mokoena was one of the six South African protesters convicted of the murder of Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Kuzwayo Jacob Dlamini, and sentenced to death. On September 3, 1984, a protest march in Sharpeville turned violent (some of the crowd threw stones at Dlamimi's house). He responded by firing a gun and a riot ensued and the deputy mayor was murdered. Reid Mokoenas, Mojalefa Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Oupa Diniso, Duma Khumalo and Francis Don Mokhesi were arrested in the following months, found guilty of murder under the Common Purpose doctrine and sentenced to death by hanging on December 12, 1985. After world condemnation the sentence was commuted to 18–25 years in prison by President Pieter Willem Botha. With the fall of apartheid, the first members of the Sharpeville Six, Diniso and Khumalo, were released on July 10, 1991, followed by Mokoena and Ramashamola on December 13, 1991 and the final two, Mokhesi and Sefatsa released on September 26, 1992.