The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.

2023年6月16日 · Soweto Uprising, student-led protest that began on June 16, 1976, in Soweto, South Africa, against the government’s plans to impose the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction in schools for Black students. After a deadly interaction with the police that day, the initial protest escalated into a much larger and often violent challenge ...

2019年11月20日 · On June 16, 1976, black high school students numbering in their thousands from different schools took to the streets of Soweto to protest. They were expressing their grievances over a racially discriminatory educational policy that forced them to use Afrikaans as the official language in the classroom.

2024年12月26日 · The Soweto Students Action Committee has organised the township’s high school pupils to march to Orlando Stadium to protest against the government’s new language policy. The student leaders come mainly from three Soweto schools: Naledi High in Naledi, Morris Isaacson High in Mofolo, and Phefeni Junior Secondary , close to Vilakazi Street in ...

2013年5月21日 · The June 16 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953.

The uprising took place in 1976 in Soweto township, adjacent to the city of Johannesburg. It began as a protest by thousands, mostly students, against the government’s insistence that the Afrikaans language—a language of the white minority that ruled South Africa—be used as the medium of instruction in Soweto’s high schools, which ...

2006年6月13日 · In June 1976, black anger finally boiled over. It was the pass laws, and the whole system of apartheid, that formed the backdrop to the protests that became known as the Soweto uprising. Dawn...

The shootings in Soweto sparked a massive uprising that soon spread to more than 100 urban and rural areas throughout South Africa. The immediate cause for the June 16, 1976, march was student opposition to a decree issued by the Bantu Education Department that imposed Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in half the subjects in higher ...

The controversy escalated on April 30, 1976, when students at the Orlando West Junior School in Soweto skipped school in protest. Black students from surrounding schools in Soweto joined the demonstrations against the decree and demanded educational …

The protest march by over 10 000 high school pupils, demanding an end to Afrikaans tuition in their schools, was met on the border of Soweto by a barrage of some 300 heavily armed policemen. Police fired shots into the air to quell the 'riot'.