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Soweto uprising
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Demonstration of schoolchildren in Orlando, a township of Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, on 16 June 1976, against Bantu education and the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in high school, which was brutally put down by the police.
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anti-apartheid resistance
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09.01.06 NAMED CONFLICTS AND REBELLIONS
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