YouthDay - Blogabond

Today it is Youth Day, so everyone gets the day off of work or school. Black South African students marched on June 16, 1976 to protest Bantu/separate and unequal education. School had been taught only in Afrikaans, and the educational standards were much lowers for black schools. Busi from work was in 8th grade and actually marched in the Eastern Cape. There the police fired rubber bullets at the students to disperse the protest. In Soweto, students weren't so lucky. Real bullets were used, and many students died. So June 16th is a day of to remember the sacrifice and importance of the youth for this country. The above picture is the famous image Sam Nzima took to document what had happened.

Youth Day

Cape Town, South Africa

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