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© the artist | Jun 15, 2011 | The New Age

He started it!

THE DAY THE YOUTH STOOD UP TO APARTHEID: JERM marks the 35th anniversary of June 16, 1976, when 20 000 students in Soweto protested against apartheid's racist Bantu education system. The regime responded with extreme violence, killing 176 and injuring many more unarmed school children. But the blood spilled on that day would renew the resistance, which would ultimately lead to the dismantling of apartheid some fourteen years later.