The correct answer is D: Mandela concluded that protestors must consider violence as a response to violence on the part of the government.
The statement that describes how Nelson Mandela reacted to the Sharpeville massacre is that Mandela concluded that protestors must consider violence as a response to violence on the part of the government. The massacre in Sharpeville that resulted in the killing of 69 demonstrators and injuring of over 300 others when the Afrikana police deliberately shot protestors outside the police station. The Sharpeville massacre convinced anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to abandon his non-violent stances and began organizing paramilitary groups to resist and fight the South African system of institutionalized racial discrimination. However, after some minor military action in 1964, Nelson Mandela was arrested and jailed for 27 years.
