South Africa’s epochal 1976 uprisings shouldn’t be reduced to a symbolic ritual
South Africa’s epochal 1976 uprisings shouldn’t be reduced to a symbolic ritual: A memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, honouring the victims of the massacre of school children by apartheid police. AFP/Mujahid Safodien/via Getty Images On the morning of Wednesday, 16 June 1976, young students from schools across Soweto set out on a march through the …