What the youth are marching for in our 32-year-old democracy
Daily Maverick | 15.06.2026 20:05
On 16 June 1976, thousands of black students walked out of schools all over Soweto and into history. What followed – police gunfire, scores of deaths and an uprising that spread across South Africa – was the product not of a spontaneous moment of rage, but of months of organised resistance against the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction and the Bantu Education system designed to keep black children’s futures deliberately small.
