16 June 1976
Demonstrations
Demonstrations break out against a Government proposal to teach Afrikaans
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Soweto in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Demonstrations break out against a Government proposal to teach Afrikaans
Police open fire & 76 students are killed
The Government drops its proposal to teach Afrikaans
Provenance
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