Forty-eight years ago, on June 16, 1976, the Soweto Uprising broke out. Thousands of schoolchildren poured onto the streets of the Black township outside Johannesburg, protesting against the apartheid regime’s demand that they be taught in Afrikaans – the “language of the oppressor,” as they put it – instead of English.

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