South African Government Suppresses Soweto Student Rebellion
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Human Rights, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: African History
- Geographical Location: South Africa
- Date: June 16, 1976
Article abstract: The Soweto Riots of 1976 changed the fundamental relationship between the Afrikaner-dominated regime and the African majority.
Summary of Event
On June 16, 1976, ten thousand African school children in the segregated public schools of South Africa openly protested against a new regime policy which required instruction in Afrikaans, the Dutch language of the white minority that controlled government institutions. Afrikaans is the language of Dutch Afrikaners, who along with the British settled the tip of southern Africa and eventually...
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