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Category. v. t. e. 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 ...
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 resentment grew until 30 April 1976, when children at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went on strike and refused to go to school. Their rebellion spread to many other schools in Soweto. Students formed an Action Committee (later known as the Soweto Students' Representative Council) and organised a mass rally for 16 June 1976.
Teboho MacDonald Mashinini. Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January 1957 – 1990) born in Jabavu, Soweto, South Africa, died in the summer of 1990 in Conakry, Guinea, and buried in Avalon Cemetery, was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June, 1976.
v. t. e. 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] It was banned by the apartheid government in October 1977 as part of ...
Hastings Ndlovu (2 February 1961 – 16 June 1976) was a schoolboy who was killed in the Soweto uprising against the apartheid system in South Africa. Life
Mbuyisa Makhubu (born 1957 or 1958) is a South African anti- Apartheid activist who disappeared in 1979. [2] He was seen carrying Hector Pieterson in a photograph taken by Sam Nzima after Pieterson was shot during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. [3] Despite the photograph's endurance, little is known about Makhubu. [4]
27 – The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah. May. 29 – Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France. June. 16 – Student riots break out in Soweto and Hector Pieterson, Hastings Ndlovu and two white officials of the West Rand Board are some of the casualties. [2]