Generation Z| Ignorance of 16 June Events Among SA Youth ‘Disturbing’ – Ramaphosa

IN two days’ time we commemorate the fateful events of June 16th 1976, when brave young men and women in Soweto and other parts of the country rose up against the iniquity of Bantu Education.
 
On that day and in the days that followed, many lost their lives. They were killed by a callous regime that had little regard for black lives and thought nothing of opening fire on unarmed, uniformed schoolchildren. 
 
These events hardened international opinion against the apartheid regime and gave further impetus to the liberation struggle.
 
Young people have always been at the forefront of social protest, from the anti-authoritarian protests in Latin America in the late 1950s to the May 68 movement in France, to the protests across many parts of Africa in the late 1960s.
 
History faithfully records the contribution of the generation of 1976 to the international student movement and