With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of ``white-only'' jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). The coloured category included major subgroups of Indians and…

The 1976 generation of school children brought down the almighty Apartheid regime. They did it with sticks, stones, petrol bombs and road blocks. and becoming ungovernable. A Revolution exploding..

The Southern West Township is burning!! JUNE 16- Celebrating YOUTH DAY in South Africa By Warren Bright “When you see your friends being shot at for just walking in the street, it does something to you. And therefore, you would look around; what are the alternatives? Do I become like my mother, forever under the yoke of apartheid? The alternative was for me to not be like my mom, great as she was, but to go and fight. ”Thandi Modise, on Soweto uprising . Thirty two years ago, the uprising of…

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Millions of South Africans are commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in 1976, where an estimated 600 school children were massacred by

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