Here’s your First Look at Jewel: A Netflix Original telling the Story of the ‘Sharpeville Massacre’ in South Africa | Premieres July 8th
SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Here’s your First Look at Jewel: A Netflix Original telling the Story of the ‘Sharpeville Massacre’ in South Africa | Premieres July 8th Telling original African stories with African actors, filmmakers is one of the strong suits of Netflix and that is what this new movie, Jewel is all about. ADVERTISEMENT Set to premier on Friday 8th of July 2022, Jewel is a Netflix Original movie that takes a deep dive and tells the compelling story of the Sharpeville massacre; an incident that occured in March 1960 in the Black township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, South Africa, in which police fired on a crowd of Black people, killing or wounding some 250 of them. ADVERTISEMENT It was one of the first and most violent demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa. ADVERTISEMENT Written and directed by Adze Ugah w