Every year on June 16, South Africa observes Youth Day to commemorate the 1976 Soweto Uprising, a pivotal moment in the fight against apartheid. On this day 48 years ago, students in Soweto, the country’s largest black township, took to the streets to protest against the unjust and inferior Bantu education system imposed by the apartheid government.
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