From Uprising to Soft Power: How 1976 Shaped South Africa’s Struggle and Its Co-option
On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of Black schoolchildren in Soweto marched peacefully against the apartheid government’s decree that Afrikaans be used as a language of instruction in schools.It was not just a protest about language - it was a refusal to be culturally colonised, a rebellion against the daily indignities of Bantu Education and systemic dehumanisation.The apartheid police responded with gunfire. The murder of children in broad […]