1976 Soweto Youth Uprising
There isn't a certain number but a lot of black students lost their lives countrywide. The march started in Matseke High school in Orlando West by Tsietsi Mashinini. The march then spread across Soweto and the whole country. It's the day where students like Hector Peterson died at the hands of Jabulani Makhubu, the individuals we see on the famous 1976 Soweto uprising picture today.
On this present day, this very same month, Mashashane people have already planned countable events to honor the day that bloodshed and hearts are broken. That was the very same tragedy that left many families in pain and feeling helpless as there was absolutely nothing they could possibly do but just accept that they are loved once are no more.
In the present month, a group of young people in the village have made a pledge that they would never forget the lives of great souls that risked their lives and fought for them and made means for them to acquire a very dedicated and expensive education one could ever ask for, on their pain and blood.
With that been said, a number of people in the village are up and about silent protest, more like a fun walk, looking at the rules that come with the Covid-19 pandemic. The walk is taking place at 09h00 from Mashashane Clinic in Maune, destiny been to Mashashane Police Station in Mohlonong, Wednesday 16th of June 2021.
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