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40 years on, S. Africa honors Soweto uprising

Edit Arabnews 17 Jun 2016
South Africa on Thursday marked 40 years since the Soweto uprising, when white police officers gunned down black students in a massacre that ignited a new era of anti-apartheid resistance. The 1976 protests, and the government’s violent response, were a turning point in the struggle that eventually led to the fall of apartheid ......

South Africa: South African Student Politics 40 Years After Soweto

Edit All Africa 17 Jun 2016
[SciDev.Net] On 16 June 1976, thousands of schoolchildren took to the streets of the Johannesburg township of Soweto, in protest at the apartheid government's imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction, as well as at broader government oppressions. The brutal police response to the Soweto uprising shocked the world and became a decisive moment in the history of apartheid resistance ... ....

South Africa Marks 40th Anniversary of Soweto Uprising

Edit Topix 17 Jun 2016
- South Africans marked the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when the streets of the township south-west of Johannesburg were stained with blood in one of the country's most notable anti-apartheid uprisings ... in Afrikaans, the Dutch-based language of the white minority rulers who enforced a system of racial segregation known as apartheid....

News from Variety - Film News

Edit IMDb 17 Jun 2016
Filmed on three chest-mounted GoPros that chronicled their epic, 15,000-mile road trip across the country in 2014, “The Journeymen” offered a candid snapshot of a nation at a crossroads, with South Africans from a diverse range of backgrounds looking back on two decades of post-apartheid democratic rule....

40 years later much has been achieved: Current generation of youth must take it forward (ANC - African National Congress)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016
The African National Congress (ANC) joins the country in commemorating 40 years since the brave youth and pioneers of 1976 took to the streets of Soweto to rise up against the apartheid regime. The 16th of June 1976 brought home the full horror that was apartheid, as heavily armed security forces mowed down unarmed students demanding the decision to introduce Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools should be revoked....

MP Killer Linked To Far-Right Group

Edit The Daily Beast 17 Jun 2016
... was named as a supporter of an extremist group called the Springbok Club, which supported apartheid in South Africa....

‘Journeymen’ Opens Durban Festival on Positive, and Crowdpleasing, Note

Edit Variety 17 Jun 2016
The 37th Durban Intl. Film Festival (DIFF) kicked off June 16 with a youthful and energetic doc that was warmly received on what’s celebrated across the country as Youth Day. As South Africa commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, a series of student protests that were an emotional high-water mark of the anti-apartheid struggle,... Read more » ... ....

Zuma says apartheid policies were absurd

Edit Sowetan Live 17 Jun 2016
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto student uprising‚ President Jacob Zuma said the apartheid policies of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd were “absurd” as they denied people the right to equitable education ... ....

Ripple effect of courage their legacy

Edit Independent online (SA) 17 Jun 2016
In Cape Town, students at Langa High were the first to follow their Soweto counterparts in rising up against the oppressive apartheid regime ... ....

News24.com | British MP's alleged killer had links to pro-apartheid magazine

Edit News24 17 Jun 2016
The alleged killer of British MP Jo Cox was a supporter of a US neo-Nazi group and also subscribed to a magazine published by a pro-apartheid group, according to reports ... ....

Meet the film-maker behind Action Kommandant

Edit Independent online (SA) 17 Jun 2016
Gasant Abarder spoke to Nadine Cloete, who has won acclaim for her documentary telling the story of young anti-apartheid fighter Ashley Kriel ... ....

Mmusi Maimane asks why Nkandla architect has been let off the hook

Edit Business Day 17 Jun 2016
Fire ‘apartheid-era cop’ Berning Ntlemeza, young communists urge Zuma Choosing ......

Murderer of Jo Cox, South African apartheid supporter

Edit Topix 17 Jun 2016
The man arrested over the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox is believed to have had long-term links with a hard-right group based in London Thomas Mair was named as a supporter in an online publication of the Springbok Club, an organisation which has defended the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa ... Patriot" who has moved from his address in the Fieldhead Estate district of the town." ... ....
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