Peter David was born in Johannesburg , South Africa to a family of Lithuanian Jews who had settled in South Africa decades earlier to escape pogroms . His father was a lawyer and his mother was a left-wing political activist who fought against the apartheid government . After the Sharpeville massacre there in 1960 , where 69 people were killed by police , she feared arrest and the family relocated to London within days . They eventually settled in Liverpool
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
Peter David (journalist)