Langa is a township and suburb of Cape Town , South Africa . It was established in 1927 in terms of the 1923 Urban Areas Act . Similar to Nyanga , Langa is one of the many areas in South Africa that were designated for Black Africans before the apartheid era . It is the oldest of such suburbs in Cape Town and was the location of much resistance to apartheid . Langa is also where several people were killed on 21 March 1960 same day as the Sharpeville massacre , during the anti-pass campaign . On 21 March 2010 , now 50 years later , a monument was unveiled by the government in remembrance of the people who lost their lives
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
Langa, Cape Town