YOUNG MAVERICK: '76 Exhibition: The children of the Mother City who faced down apartheid By Suné Payne SunePayne
metres away from a police station.and his comrades protested against police brutality, against Bantu Education and to show solidarity with the young people who had protested on 16 June 1976 in Soweto.
On investigating, Abrahams discovered that 148 people were killed due to police action in Cape Town during the protests and over the following months. Abrahams said the protests in Cape Town started in August 1976 in the black townships of Langa and Nyanga where young people protested in solidarity with their counterparts in Soweto. The protests were against the Bantu Education system enforced by the apartheid regime, the forced use of Afrikaans in schools, arrests and detentions, and the police brutality experienced by pupils in Soweto during June 1976.
. It tells you that the ripples of the 1976 uprising were felt long after the Casspirs left the townships.smaller room where pictures of South Africa’s transition to democracy and several chapters from the Bill of Rights are on display. But more importantly, Abrahams said, “part of our history is dying” as many of the activists from the 1970s and 1980s had died.Abrahams said that through the exhibition, she had hoped that communities would start telling their own stories and that those who took part in the struggle – dead and alive – would be honoured.
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