Tibetan children are banned from attending Tibetan classes and the flow of information and people in and out of Tibet is strictly controlled by the occupiers. On 10 March 1959, 60 years ago, unarmed Tibetan people rose up against China's illegal occupation, and were brutally suppressed with 87 000 Tibetans killed and over 100 000 forced into exile. The parallels with the ANC are hard to avoid.