What is the Soweto massacre?

Answer 1

As it is in the words of that poignant poem by that noble bard of Africa, Monglane Wally Serote - it was a dry white season. It happened on the morning of June 16, 1976. Fifteen thousand schoolchildren gathered in Soweto, South Africa, to protest the Apartheid government's ruling that half of all classes in secondary school must be taught in Afrikaans. Prior pleadings and petitions by parents and teachers had been passed over. The students had assumed the deep groans of the ages, filtered them in their tender souls, and fashioned a passionate psalm of protest. It was the clamour of a generation that had refused to learn in the language of the oppressor. Ever so determined to march ahead, ever so resolved in saying in no uncertain terms that there would be normalcy-no more, they moved in a creative orbit, imparting light and heat to distant satellites. And like an idea whose time had come, not even the marching of mighty armies could stop them. As it is in the words of that poignant poem by that noble bard of Africa, Monglane Wally Serote - it was a dry white season. It happened on the morning of June 16, 1976. Fifteen thousand schoolchildren gathered in Soweto, South Africa, to protest the Apartheid government's ruling that half of all classes in secondary school must be taught in Afrikaans. Prior pleadings and petitions by parents and teachers had been passed over. The students had assumed the deep groans of the ages, filtered them in their tender souls, and fashioned a passionate psalm of protest. It was the clamour of a generation that had refused to learn in the language of the oppressor. Ever so determined to march ahead, ever so resolved in saying in no uncertain terms that there would be normalcy-no more, they moved in a creative orbit, imparting light and heat to distant satellites. And like an idea whose time had come, not even the marching of mighty armies could stop them.