Published: Jun 16, 2022, 06:27 IST | Updated: Jun 16, 2022, 06:27 IST
Youth day in South Africa commemorates the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976. In 1975, protests started in South African schools following a directive from the then Bantu Education department that said that Afrikaans had to be used as an equal basis with the English as the language of instruction in secondary schools.