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June 16

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How dare you compare the youth of 2015 to those of 1976?

Motlatsi Motseoile by Motlatsi Motseoile 25 June 201525 June 2015

The youth of 1976 stand lauded for their bravery in standing up to the government of the time. They held what was meant to be a peaceful march in protest against being instructed, as black learners, in Afrikaans. Afrikaans was the language of the leadership at the time. This peaceful march turned gruesome and now […]

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The June 16s of tomorrow

Kopano Matlwa Mabaso by Kopano Matlwa Mabaso 17 June 201517 June 2015

Yesterday we honoured Youth Day in South Africa, a day when we remember the hundreds of young people who were massacred in 1976 by the apartheid regime for their peaceful protests against a state education system that sought to forever keep them as economic slaves. It took the courage of children to bring the apartheid […]

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