Youth Day on June 16th honors the young people killed in this event.
Youth Day on June 16th honors the young people killed in this event. Captured on film by Samuel Nzima, fifteen thousand students were congregating peacefully near the Orlando West Secondary School at the behest of Tsietsi Mashinini ["see-et-see mash-uh-ni-ni"] when they were confronted by a Bureau of State Security police squad. Bullets and tear gas killed at least 23 people, turning the protest against the Bantu Education and the Afrikaans language policies into a violent uprising against apartheid. For ten points, what was this 1976 South African riot named for the collection of townships near Johannesburg in which it took place?
Youth Day on June 16th honors the young people killed in this event.
Soweto Riot