Soweto Youth Uprising of June 16

User icon Yoomna Rahim
19 June 2024
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The June 16, 1976, Soweto Uprising profoundly changed South Africa's socio-political landscape, triggered by the Apartheid government's Bantu Education Act and compulsory use of Afrikaans in schools. Between 3,000 and 10,000 students protested peacefully, but were met with police violence, sparking a nationwide revolt. The brutal crackdown led to international condemnation and bolstered the anti-Apartheid movement with new recruits.



DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1977 English

Memorandum on SASM, apparently prepared as part of legal action, in Afrikaans with extensive quotations in English from SASM documents. Translation of the Afrikaans pages into English, by Sebastian McKay, …




University of the Witwatersrand English

A Police supervised press tour of Soweto on 16 June 1984, the 7 years after the Soweto Uprising. Journalists are driven around in a "Raatel" Soldiers stand in the foreground.


Villon Films · 1976 English

Propaganda film that gives a biased view of the events leading up to and after the uprising in Soweto, June 16th, 1976.


Villon Films · 1985 English

Unedited Interview from Davis's documentary, Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid, was made in 1986, when Winnie was in exile in Brandfort, South Africa, and necessitated Davis's illegal entry into South Africa. …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1976 English

The constitution of the South African Student's Movement adopted at King Williams Town, South Africa, March 1976.


IISH: International Institute of Social History

With press cuttings and photographs of the 1976 Soweto uprising


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1981 English

Lecture by Wycliffe M Tsotsi, Vice-President, Unity Movement of South Africa, on the Soweto Uprising and the history of the liberation struggle.