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Apartheid. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans ...
ISBN. 978-0-224-01690-2. OCLC. 5834280. Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature -winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was expected to be banned in South Africa, and a month after publication in London the import and sale ...
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti- Apartheid Soweto Uprising, where more than 170 protesting school children were ...
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.
The South African Students' Movement (SASM) was an anti-apartheid political organisation of South African school students, best known for its role in the 1976 Soweto uprising. [1] [2] [3] By 1976 it was strongly identified with the Black Consciousness Movement. [3]
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.
12 June – Stewart Carson, badminton player. 3 July – Bobby Skinstad, Springboks captain. 1 August – Lucky Lekgwathi, football player. 24 August – DJ Tira, DJ, Record Producer and Businessman, founder of Afrotainment. 11 September – Vuyo Dabula, actor. 13 September – Linda Sokhulu, actress. 3 October – Carl Beukes, actor.
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. [2][1] It also raises awareness of ...