Brian Freedland: That Afrikaans would be the medium for education at schools. Africans were used to being taught in their own language to a large extent and Afrikaans was viewed as the oppressors langauge to a large extent.English has taken over now I believe and many kids are taught in English.
Phillip Modafferi: Found this through googleTensions over language in education erupted into violence on June 16, 1976, when students took to the streets in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. Their action was prompted by the decision of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of the Bantu education system, to enforce a regulation requiring that one-half of all high-school classes must be taught in Afrikaans. A harsh police response resulted in the deaths of several children, some as young as eight or nine years old. In the violence that followed, more than 575 people died, at least 134 of them under the age of eighteen....Show more
Maynard Reevers: Its became ! college pupils that took to the streets in protest of the Apartheid equipment issues like compelled Afrikaans and Bantu coaching which became an coaching equipment designed with the aid of the Afrikaaners so as that black human beings can by no ability be experienced workers. besides the then government sent out a protection tension of policemen that used stay ammunition on "college infants" this took place on the sixteen June 1976.
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