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1Alex:
Yeye people we stood for

1Alex:
Yeye people we stood for

RandDigital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3bEMK2z6HU?si=zbeOWkZjKFXu4A74

YOUTH DAY🇿🇦 & INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD🌍

The day of 16 June 1976 began peacefully in Soweto. Student leaders at high schools across the sprawling Johannesburg township, to which the apartheid regime had exiled hundreds of thousands of black South Africans, took charge of the morning assemblies. They led their fellow students into the streets and began to march toward Orlando stadium.

The students were protesting against the government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. Their teachers barely spoke the white minority language and the students did not want to learn the oppressor’s language. They were tired of the intentionally substandard Bantu education, tired of being second-class citizens.

By the end of the day, dozens would be dead.

The mood of the young protesters started off joyous, people who marched that winter day remembered. They sang struggle anthems, including Senzeni Na?, which asks in Xhosa: “What have we done [to deserve this]?”

“Our worst-case scenario, of course, was that they were going to throw cans and cans of teargas at us,” said Sibongile Mkhabela, then an 18-year-old pupil at Naledi high school and one of the march organisers.

As the children moved east, more schools joined. By the time the first group reached Orlando West, where Nelson Mandela had lived before he was imprisoned on Robben Island, the students numbered in their thousands.

They faced a wall of police. The police had a loudhailer, said Oupa Moloto, then a 19-year-old pupil at Morris Isaacson high school. But none of the students could hear what was being said.

Accounts of what happened next differ. Some say a white police officer threw a teargas canister into the crowd. Moloto remembered police dogs being released to attack marchers. “Now, women students were panicking and then we took stones to retaliate,” he said. “And then the firing started.”

Moloto thought it was fireworks at first. Then he saw that a boy next to him had been shot: “I was surprised when I saw this bleeding, that these guys are really shooting.”

He did not know what happened to the boy in the pandemonium that followed. “Helicopters were hovering over, shooting teargas from up in the sky. Students were panicking, running in different directions,” Moloto said.

Among the first to die were 15-year-old Hastings Ndlovu and 12-year-old Hector Pieterson. The photograph taken by the local journalist Sam Nzima of Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying Hector’s limp, bloodied body, Hector’s sister Antoinette running beside them, face twisted in anguish, became the day’s defining image.

The number of people killed that day, which became known as the Soweto uprising, has never been definitively confirmed. The official figure was 23, but some estimates put the death toll at more than 200, according to South African History Online, a respected resource.

The unrest spread to other townships. Government institutions were looted and burned. The police continued to fire. A regime report in 1980 concluded that 575 people died in the months after the start of the uprising. “By the end of 1976, the entire apartheid system was on trial,” said Mkhabela, who now runs an NGO.

The uprising created a new generation of anti-apartheid activists, reviving a struggle that had faltered after Mandela and other African National Congress leaders were given life sentences in 1964. Thousands of students fled South Africa to join uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC in exile.

RandDigital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3bEMK2z6HU?si=zbeOWkZjKFXu4A74

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MarketDispatch:
South Africa should refund the $61 billion dollars Nigerian Government spent on South Africa. Money that should have been used to create jobs for Nigerians, Nigerian Government spent it to liberate South Africa, now they are ungrateful.

Nigerians would not have been going to South Africa if the $61 billion dollars was used for Nigerians

RandDigital:
Kindly tell Tinubu to supply proof of the $61B and then invoice SA.

MarketDispatch:
South Africa should refund the $61 billion dollars Nigerian Government spent on South Africa. Money that should have been used to create jobs for Nigerians, Nigerian Government spent it to liberate South Africa, now they are ungrateful.

Nigerians would not have been going to South Africa if the $61 billion dollars was used for Nigerians

wiseone28:
Always ungrateful lots *spit*