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DAY WE HONOR YOUTH OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Aluta Continua (Struggle Continues) ✊🏾✊🏾
Just before 1960’s, the government introduced ee they called BANTU Education, simply means Education for Black People of SA. segregation law that legislated for several aspects of the apartheid system and enforced racially-separated educational facilities. The government was spending more on a white child’s’ education and less on a black’s child’s education. Just in the mid 1970’s the apartheid government introduced Afrikaans as a medium of instructions in the school syllabus, there was a tension sparked in amongst the youth in Soweto, many believed that Afrikaans is the language of the oppressor. The majority of students failed dismally in the first and second quarter of 1976.
The students of Soweto mobilized on a non-violence protest and a peace march showing resistance towards the oppression laws.
In 1976 June 16, the Soweto students and other Students representatives from other townships in Johannesburg gathered on the famous Vilakazi Street, in Soweto. The crowd of over 10 000 students led by Tsietsi Mashinini and other students leaders holding placards and singing struggle songs with intention to march to Orlando Stadium to hand over a memorandum to show grievances were confronted with the police holding rifles and police dogs in presence. The students were told to go back to school as their march was illegal and students resisted because the police were speaking in Afrikaans. The police fired teargas carnitas to disperse the thousands students and released the German Shepherds dogs and the dogs disappeared in the crowds and later thrown back to the police injured and one dog died, that’s when the police released fire, the police decided that the life of a dog was more important than the life of a black child. Thousands kids were injured, thousands bitten, thousands fled the country to go to exile, the crossfire left a 12 year Hector Pieterson dead, and other dozens dead, as the police drives out the township, they left the corpses lying around. For more information book a history and cultural tour of Jhb and Soweto on [email protected] www.timelinetravel.co.za