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THE SOWETO UPRISING:
WHERE WAS THE SOWETO UPRISING?
THE SOWETO UPRISING BEGAN AT ISAAC MORRISON HIGH SCHOOL IN SOWETO.
THE UPRISINGS EVENTUALLY SPREAD TO OTHER SCHOOLS IN SOWETO
EVENTUALLY, THE UPRISING SPREAD ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA AND BECAME A GENERAL UPRISING AGAINST APARTHEID.
WHY WAS THERE A SOWETO UPRISING?
BCM
THE BCM WAS FORMALISED IN 1968 WITH THE FORMATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANISATION (SASO) LED BY STEVE BIKO.
SASO CREATED THE BLACK PEOPLES CONVENTION (BPC) WHICH EXTENDED ITS REACH INTO SCHOOLS, FORMALIZED AS SASM IN 1972
IN SOWETO, THE SSRC WOULD FORM AS A COALITION BETWEEN SRCS OF SOWETO SCHOOLS IN AN EFFORT TO REJECT INFERIOR EDUCATION
THE BCM TAUGHT YOUTH TO REJECT INFERIORITY THAT THE APARTHEID REGIME HAS FORCED UPON THEM.
THIS CONSCIENTIOUSNESS WOULD AWAKENED FEELINGS OF REVOLT AGAINST THE INFERIOR EDUCATION THAT THEY KNEW THEY WERE RECEIVING.
AFRIKAANS MEDIUM DECREE
THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE CAN BE SEEN AS THE AFRIKAANS MEDIUM DECREE (1974)
THIS DECREE STATED THAT THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN BLACK SCHOOLS HAD TO BE A MIXTURE OF 50-50 ENGLISH AND AFRIKAANS
THIS DECREE ANGERED STUDENTS AS THE RECOGNIZED THIS AS AN ATTEMPT OF THE APARTHEID GOVERNMENT TO FURTHER DISREGARD THEIR EDUCATION AND CONTINUE TO TREAT THEM AS INFERIOR
WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SOWETO UPRISING?
SHORT TERM CONSEQUENCES
THE UPRISING, LED BY SCHOOL STUDENTS, WAS PEACEFUL UNTIL VIOLENCE BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE PROTESTERS AND POLICE.
HECTOR PETERSON IS FAMOUSLY THE FIRST CASUALTY OF THIS CONFLICT
LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES
INTERNATIONAL SCRUTINY
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY BEGAN TO BOYCOTT SOUTH AFRICA IN AN ARRAY OF SPHERES
SOUTH AFRICA WAS EXPELLED BY FIFA IN 1976
SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY WAS FURTHER OSTRACIZED BY THE IRB
ARTISTS REFUSED TO PERFORM OR ALLOW THEIR ART TO BE DISPLAYED IN SOUTH AFRICA
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONDEMNED SOUTH AFRICA AND ADOPTED A RESOLUTION TO PRESSURE MEMBERS TO BOYCOTT SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMICALLY AND CULTURALLY
POPULAR SUPPORT FOR LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
THE UN RESOLUTION PUSHED FOR COUNTRIES TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN LEFT SCHOOL AND FLOODED TO THE RANKS OF THE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
YOUTH RESOLVE WAS BOLSTERED AND RESISTANCE AGAINST APARTHEID WAS THE NORM
ALIENATION OF MODERATE WHITES
WHITES WHO WERE NOT PRO-NP WERE ALIENATED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE POLICE FORCE IN THE NAME OF APARTHEID
MODERATES WOULD BE PRESSURED TO ADOPT A MORE LIBERAL OUTLOOK
WHITES WERE DISILLUSIONED WITH THE NPs INABILITY TO CONTROL THE ENSUING CHAOS, FURTHER ALIENATING CONSTITUENTS
WHAT WAS THE SOWETO UPRISING?
THE SOWETO UPRISING WAS AN UPRISING THAT WAS INITIALLY AGAINST THE BANTU EDUCATION ACT, BUT WOULD EVOLVE INTO A GENERAL ANTI-APARTHEID UPRISING.
APPROXIMATELY 20 000 STUDENTS TOOK PART IN THE PROTEST
WHEN WAS THE SOWETO UPRISING?
THE SOWETO UPRISING BEGAN ON 16 JUNE 1976
WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE SOWETO UPRISING?
SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS MOVEMENT (SASM) WERE THE MASTERMINDS BEHIND THE UPRISINGS
SASM WAS A GROUP MADE UP OF YOUTH. IT WAS FOUNDED UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE BCM.
THE SOWETO STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL (SSRC) WAS FORMED BY SASM AND SPEARHEADED THE UPRISING
THE STUDENTS OF ISAAC MORRISON HIGH SCHOOL WERE THE INITIAL DRIVING FORCE.
TSIETSI MASHININI LED THE STUDENTS