High school student-led protests in South Africa began on the morning of 16 June 1976 in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. Known as the Soweto uprising, an estimated 20,000 students took part in the protests. The police fired teargas and live ammunition on demonstrating students. The official count is that 176 protesters were killed, but actual estimates are much higher.

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#Kissinger at 100: how his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in #Africa fuelled war in #Angola and prolonged #apartheid
Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the #SowetoUprising

"The struggle against apartheid was never just a struggle to replace a white government with a black government and a white elite with a black elite." - #SouthAfrica June 16, 1976 uprising: Today we mourn - Read more: https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/06/16/south-africa-june-16-1976-uprising-today-we-mourn/ #SowetoUprising #SA #ZA #antireport