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	The Soweto Massacre
		The Soweto uprising was a violent uprising initiated by the fl youth in Soweto.
		Soweto, South Africa is a "township" (Sholtz 3) situated twenty-four kilometers southwest of Johannesburg in the Gauteng Province (Tuttle 1).
		Some other problems that could have sparked the uprising were overcrowding and high drop out rates in schools, the racist content of school programs, inadequate, poorly maintained facilities, and the ideology of the BCM penetrated into the schools (Scholtz 1).
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/04/kistner/kistner.htm (1078 words)

	Complete Guide to South Africa - Gauteng Soweto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		SOWETO was originally an acronym for the South Western Townships, and comprising about thirty townships developed into a city as a result of a policy of territorial and political segregation followed by the South Africa's white dominated government.
		Soweto is an arts and culture hub and it has a rich history of the apartheid struggle.
		Soweto started with a competition organized by the Johannesburg City Council in 1931 for the design of new fl townships for 80 000 residents south west of Johannesburg.
	www.southafricatraveler.com /gauteng/sowet.htm (997 words)

	Soweto - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soweto grew as fl workers came to the industrialized area after World War I; the name for the city was collective term for what was originally a group of segregated townships inhabited by fls.
		In 1976, Soweto was the scene of a massive uprising that began as a student protest against the government's use of Afrikaans in fl schools.
		Coming to terms with the past: Soweto, June 16th 1976: Gary Baines explains that the ANC government has institutionalized memories of the Soweto uprising in its efforts to build a new national identity in South Africa.(African National Congress)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-soweto.html (412 words)

	Soweto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soweto is an urban area in the City of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa.
		Soweto came to the world's attention on June 16, 1976 with the Soweto Riots, when mass protests erupted over the government's policy to enforce education in Afrikaans rather than English.
		In 1995 Soweto became part of the Southern Metropolitan Transitional Local Council, and in 2002 was incorporated into the City of Johannesburg [17].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soweto (2238 words)

	Revolutionary Youth - The Soweto Uprising
		The uprising was a very important event during which the youths of South Africa -- fed up with decades of injustice -- dealt a fatal blow to the racist apartheid system from which it would never be able to recover.
		On the first anniversary of the police attack on the Soweto students, as the revolt it sparked was still going on, the ANC successfully called a strike against the apartheid system.
		The Soweto Uprising awakened many Black South Africans, who joined actively in the resistance against apartheid, as well as a number of whites, who subsequently withdrew their support for the racist system.
	freepeoplesmovement.org /ry/rys6a.html (1807 words)

	NPR : Soweto 1976: An Audio History
		A student protest by children in the poor township of Soweto proved to be a watershed moment in the fight to dismantle apartheid in South Africa.
		Announcement: Soweto, a complex of fl townships on the southwest corner of Johannesburg, with an estimated population of one-and-one-quarter million.
		The Soweto uprising was the beginning of a new era in South Africa.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5489490 (1894 words)

	afrol News - Remembering Soweto, 30 years after the uprising
		Hector was the first victim of an uprising that began as a peaceful protest by 10,000 fl students opposed to the government's introduction of Afrikaans as the language of teaching in schools.
		Soweto is the country's most famous township and the second biggest tourist attraction in South Africa.
		Soweto is regarded as the most metropolitan township in the country and a vital hub for politics, music and dance.
	www.afrol.com /articles/19985 (1158 words)

	Soweto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soweto is a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
		Population estimates for Soweto vary, but figures for the 90s are between one and a half and two million.
		Soweto was the site of the 1976 student uprisings and a center of activity for the African National Congress political struggle.
	webs.wofford.edu /mandlovenb/SAfrica/content/soweto.html (246 words)

	Soweto, Johannesburg
		Soweto is inhabited by over two million people, with homes ranging from extravagant mansions to makeshift shacks.
		Soweto is a city of enterprise and cultural interaction.
		Soweto was the centre of political campaigns aimed at the overthrow of the apartheid state.
	www.sa-venues.com /attractionsga/soweto.htm (1158 words)

	Remembering the Soweto Uprising - African Culture
		In the case of the Soweto uprising it is the image of a 12 year old boy, Hector Peterson shot dead by the police that lead to an international outrage and exposed the brutality of the South African Aparthied Government.
		The uprising proved to be the trigger that lead to the contiued struggle that eventually won freedom for South Africa in 1994 some 18 years later.
		The Soweto uprising stands as testament to the courage of the youth who joined hands against injustice and struggled to seek freedom for not just themselves but for their fellow man.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24925.asp (557 words)

	Soweto Uprising, 16 June 1976 - Background
		The June 16 Uprisings were a protest by the students against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black schools.
		The protest started off peacefully in Soweto but it turned chaotic when the police opened fire on unarmed protesting students.
		The deputy minister Andries Treurnicht sent instructions to the School Boards, Inspectors and Principals to the effect that Afrikaans should be put on an equal basis with English and had to be used as a medium of instruction in all schools.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/specialprojects/june16/june16-intro.htm (848 words)

	USATODAY.com - South Africans mark 1976 Soweto Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		SOWETO, South Africa (AP) — President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans through the streets of this fl township on Friday, retracing the steps of student protesters who galvanized the anti-apartheid struggle 30 years ago.
		The uprising started as a student protest against being taught in Afrikaans, the language of white oppressors, which few among the fl majority could understand.
		Morris Isaacson High School was the school from which students began the uprising that was pivotal in the fight to end apartheid.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-06-16-soweto_x.htm (922 words)

	:: SOWETO :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For teenagers like Dee Mashinini, exile after the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976 brought isolation from family and the painful task of having to bury a brother's body.
		The book Soweto '76, Reflections on the Liberation Struggles, released to mark the 30th anniversary of the student uprising, takes readers through the range of emotions experienced in Soweto on 16 June 1976 by means of poetry, oral testimonies, freedom songs, autobiographies, police files and a death toll list.
		It consists of shale stone walls in broken sections, with a memorial stone to Hector and the children who died in the Soweto uprising of 1976.
	www.joburg.org.za /soweto/history.stm (637 words)

	CNN.com - Inside Africa: Soweto Uprising Remembered - June 15, 2001
		SOWETO, South Africa (CNN) -- It was a picture that got the world's attention: A frozen moment in time that showed 13-year-old Hector Peterson dying after being struck down by a policeman's bullet.
		In recent years, June 16th has been called Youth Day, but for many years it was known simply as the day of the Soweto Uprisings - a chain of events that signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid.
		Hector Peterson was among some 30,000 students who took to the streets of Soweto protesting a government edict that all classes were to be taught in Afrikaans - the language of the white minority.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/06/15/inside.africa (552 words)

	Walters \| Soweto's Promise is Unmet
		But with the Soweto uprising, students brought the battle against apartheid to the urban areas and townships.
		In the United States, the shock of the Soweto uprising was the stimulus for the birth of TransAfrican, an organization headed by Randall Robinson, which demanded the release of jailed South African leaders.
		This legacy of the Soweto struggle lives on in the memory of those who fought apartheid, those whose loved ones paid the dearest price and those who wrestle with the revelations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings into the atrocities of that age.
	www.academy.umd.edu /AboutUs/news/articles/06-15-01.htm (705 words)

	Soweto!
		Soweto is a powerful contemporary dramatic production written to acquaint young people with the social and political structure of Apartheid South Africa.
		This riveting play is the ultimate commemoration of the death of Hector Peterson, the first youth to die in the Soweto uprising of 1976.
		One of our most requested touring productions, Soweto has been performed for audiences across the state, around the county and in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the Windybrow Arts Festival in 2000 where it received the VITA Award for "Best Production of the Festival".
	www.fhyea.org /soweto.htm (115 words)

	Soweto tours - The Hector Pieterson Memorial - part of the struggle tour
		Hector Pieterson, age 13, was one the first students to be killed during the 1976 Student Uprising in Soweto.
		After the 1976 Uprising a heightened political awareness saw the emergence of new leaders such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Murphy Morobe, Popo Molefe, Tsietsi Mashinini, Seth Mazibuko and Khotso Seatlholo.
		The 1976 Student Uprising changed the course of South African history and accelerated demands such as those for the release of political prisoners, the unbanning of political organizations and the formation of a new democratic South Africa.
	www.soweto.co.za /html/p_hector.htm (587 words)

	History of Education: Selected Moments
		As they were walking and singing peacefully for a planned rally at a stadium, a white policeman threw a tear-gas canister without any warning, and then the rest of the riot police fired their automatic weapons on the students, killing at least four people.
		This ignited what is known as the Soweto Uprising, the bloodiest episode of riots between protestors and police since the early sixties.
		Whereas the Soweto uprising sparked a movement that led to the dismantling of apartheid, it is extremely tragic that so many young people were killed on the road to justice and democracy.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1976soweto.html (933 words)

	Socialism Today - The Soweto uprising 1976
		The original version of this article commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, appearing in the September 1986 edition of Inqaba Ya Basebenzi (Fortress of the Revolution).
		By Friday, Soweto was effectively sealed off, saturated with police in armed convoys firing at any group they saw on the streets.
		But the uprising lasted for 20 months and still arms were not placed in the hands of the youth.
	www.socialismtoday.org /101/soweto.html (4034 words)

	South Africa marks 30th anniversary of Soweto uprising
		South African President Thabo Mbeki led commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, a watershed in the anti-apartheid struggle, when hundreds of children protesting at the forced teaching of Afrikaans died in a brutal police crackdown.
		The uprising was sparked by the imposition of Afrikans, the language of the reviled apartheid regime, and the poor education system in Soweto and other fl areas.
		Although Soweto has come a long way from being an ordinary dormitory township, housing essentially fl miners separated from their families, many residents feel the changes are purely cosmetic.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=128838 (744 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| S Africa marking Soweto uprising
		The Soweto uprising and the riots that spread to other township are seen as a milestone in the growth of the movement against white minority rule, which was finally ended in 1994.
		BBC Africa correspondent Orla Guerin says there is now a feeling that Soweto is starting to turn the corner and move away from being seen as a deprived township on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
		In Soweto, red paving stones symbolising spilled blood have been laid along the route the protesters took in 1976 from Morris Isaacson High School to the Orlando West neighbourhood where the fateful confrontation with police took place.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/5085450.stm (674 words)

	Soweto 1976: An Audio History
		Today is the 30th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa.
		HOST: The Soweto Uprising was the beginning of a new era in South Africa.
		Soweto 76: An Audio History was produced by Joe Richman and Ben Shapiro for Radio Diaries.
	www.radiodiaries.org /soweto76.html (1761 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| features Soweto uprising
		Arguably South Africa's most famous township, Soweto is undergoing an economic metamorphosis as more and more fls join the middle class, creating a demand for top quality consumer goods.
		Soweto residents have spending power estimated at around R4.3-billion, of which R3.4-billion is spent outside the township, said the Unilever Institute at the University of Cape Town.
		The R500-million Maponya Mall, named after one of Soweto's best-known business families, are to house some of the top consumer names in South Africa and Soweto's first fully-fledged cinema complex.
	business.iafrica.com /features/388524.htm (609 words)

	Hector Peterson
		He was in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid and the Soweto uprising is his legacy to the people of SouthAfrica and to Africans every where.
		The Soweto uprising was the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa.
		Soweto (an acronym for South-Western Townships), on the outskirts of Johannesburg, was the largest of numerous planned communities developed with government funds to house AZANIAN (South Africa's) urban Black population during the apartheid era, when the migration of Blacks to urban areas was strictly limited.
	www.geocities.com /spirit_of_blackness/hector_peterson.htm (1455 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		South Africa is marking the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising amid renewed debate over whether South African whites should own up to the atrocities of the former apartheid regime.
		Initially, the protest was directed at the white government's insistence that students be taught in Afrikaans, spoken by the mostly Dutch-descended ruling Afrikaners and seen then as the language of the oppressor.
		The 30th anniversary of the uprising is being celebrated against a debate set off by Archbishop Desmond Tutu's remarks in late April that South African whites had not shown enough gratitude for the magnanimity shown by fls.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/28E00871-FAB7-4FBB-B333-B006AE26BF49.htm (894 words)

	Soweto Uprising Anniversary
		Violence, unrest and enturbulation affected the whole country, majorly in fl areas and the worst area was Soweto near Johannesburg which houses 3 million people.
		The "Soweto Riots Anniversary scene" —sounding more akin to the latest privileged-youth fad than the bloody fight for freedom— is an appallingly condescending turn of a phrase.
		This was done by the distribution of a quarter of a million "The Way To Happiness" booklets, a quarter of a million fliers introducing the Happiness Club and a half a million information fliers picturing LRH with his Zulu name (URONI), to a third of the homes in the area.
	www.solitarytrees.net.silver.alphamegahosting.com /racism/kay/soweto.htm (589 words)

	When Soweto rose up\|17Jun06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On 16 June 1976 South African school students took to the streets of Soweto to protest at being forced to learn Afrikaans, which they saw as the language of their white oppressors.
		Soweto, an abbreviation for the south western townships of Johannesburg, was a sprawling fl city of between 1.5-2 million inhabitants.
		Soweto was the beginning of the end for apartheid.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=9016 (1596 words)

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