The ball is once more in civil society’s court. Can it capture the public imagination? Can it reignite a progressive mobilisation involving tens of thousands of people? Can it kindle genuine hope and offer a road other than further polarisation, violence and conflict? We believe that it can.
This year’s Youth Day marked 46 years since the 1976 student uprisings when thousands of learners took to the streets to protest against the apartheid government’s usage of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Soweto schools.
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TO this day, the late Sam Nzima’s photograph of Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying a dying Hector Pieterson – with his weeping sister, Antoinette Sithole, alongside them – symbolises what came to be known as the Soweto Uprising.