Africa | South Africa | June 16 - Youth Day.Commemorating the day in 1976 when more than 10,000 blac
Africa | South Africa | June 16 - Youth Day.Commemorating the day in 1976 when more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto, South Africa, marched out of school, protesting the government mandate that they study in Afrikaans, the language of the apartheid regime. Sam Nzima poses [in 2011] with his iconic photo of Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old shot by police during the student uprising. [Photo credit: Denis Farrell/AP] -- source link
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