Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, are we still failing learners because of language?
Daily Maverick | 26.06.2026 06:16
On a bitterly cold morning on 16 June 1976, schoolchildren in Soweto took to the streets. Not simply against apartheid, but against an education system that imposed Afrikaans as the language of instruction, erasing the linguistic heritage of millions of South African children, in the service of white minority rule.
