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The police attacks on the demonstrators continued, and 23 people died on the first day in Soweto. Among them was Melville Edelstein, who was a sociologist and academic and had devoted his efforts to humanitarian and social welfare projects in Soweto. Serving as Deputy Chief Welfare Officer, Edelstein instituted many projects aimed at assisting ...
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
It is a misty fall day; most of the lights in the classroom aren’t working. The school is famous for its instrumental role in the Soweto uprisings, but Mulwela is focused on today’s problems.
The International Day of the African Child, [1] also known as the Day of the African Child (DAC), [2] [3] has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the OAU Organisation of African Unity. [1] It honors those who participated in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 on that day.
The next day, the government ... 1976: Soweto Youth Uprising in South Africa. The Soweto uprising in 1976 marked the fiercest resistance to apartheid the South African government had seen up to ...
Youth Day on June 16 is a public holiday in South Africa and commemorates a protest which resulted in a wave of protests across the country known as the Soweto uprising of 1976. [14] Taiwan: March 29 In Taiwan, Youth Day (青年節) is celebrated on March 29 in commemoration of the Huanghuagang Uprising of 1911.
Edelstein was one of the two white men who died in the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976, when he was stoned to death by a crowd of enraged students. [6] [7]Edelstein had been hosting the official opening for a branch of his Sheltered Workshop Programme in Orlando East, designed to provide employment for disabled people, when news of the student protests reached the project.
He was the president of the Soweto Students' Representative Council from January 1977 until June 1977, when he was arrested and detained for his role in the uprising and subsequent unrest. In what became known as the Soweto 11 trial, Montsitsi and his deputy, Murphy Morobe, were convicted with nine others on sedition charges.