What my uncle’s dompas could not tell me

Every year on June 16, South Africa pauses to remember the students who marched through the streets of Soweto in 1976 and challenged an education system designed to limit their futures. We remember the photographs that travelled around the world, the names that became synonymous with youth resistance and the courage of a generation that refused to accept the role apartheid had assigned to them.

What my uncle’s dompas could not tell me

Every year on June 16, South Africa pauses to remember the students who marched through the streets of Soweto in 1976 and challenged an education system designed to limit their futures. We remember the photographs that travelled around the world, the names that became synonymous with youth resistance and the courage of a generation that refused to accept the role apartheid had assigned to them.

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