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Soweto uprising changed South Africa's political landscape

Soweto uprising changed South Africa's political landscape
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.