Soweto
June 16th 2005 June 16 is the anniversary of the 1976 student uprising in Soweto (South Western Township) that ushered in a new era of opposition to the Apartheid regime. That day started with a march and protest of school kids, frustrated with a new education law that required that core high school subjects be taught in Afrikaans -- a language that few of the students spoke (much less their teachers) and that w
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