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Lockdownships: Two conflicted strangers who find love and comfort in eac
This a true story based on the lives of two conflicted strangers.
Forty-four years ago, South Africa had experienced one of the biggest student protests where a sea of young black students took to the streets of the South Western Township affectionately known as Soweto on the 16th of June 1976 to protest the racism and inadequacy of Bantu education to be taught in their mother tongue (native languages, for example; isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Tshivenda, etc) and not in a language that was foreign to these students, which claimed the lives of so many students, the class of 1976.
That time and moment in South Africa's history has come to symbolise the crucial role that young black people have played and can play in shaping South Africa's political discourse. It remains a pivatol turning point for student activists today.The Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976 were framed around a powerful issue of immediate significance to the students: the imposing of Afrikaans as a mandatory teaching medium in black classrooms, whose curriculum was dictated by the then Department of Bantu Education.
Tens of thousands of students took the streets of Soweto filled with the placards written with the words "To Hell With Afrikaans" and "John Vorster and Jimmy Kurger are rubbish" (then prime ministers) with statements of anger dissatisfaction, and frustration as they were not taken...
Forty-four years ago, South Africa had experienced one of the biggest student protests where a sea of young black students took to the streets of the South Western Township affectionately known as Soweto on the 16th of June 1976 to protest the racism and inadequacy of Bantu education to be taught in their mother tongue (native languages, for example; isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Tshivenda, etc) and not in a language that was foreign to these students, which claimed the lives of so many students, the class of 1976.
That time and moment in South Africa's history has come to symbolise the crucial role that young black people have played and can play in shaping South Africa's political discourse. It remains a pivatol turning point for student activists today.The Soweto uprisings of June 16, 1976 were framed around a powerful issue of immediate significance to the students: the imposing of Afrikaans as a mandatory teaching medium in black classrooms, whose curriculum was dictated by the then Department of Bantu Education.
Tens of thousands of students took the streets of Soweto filled with the placards written with the words "To Hell With Afrikaans" and "John Vorster and Jimmy Kurger are rubbish" (then prime ministers) with statements of anger dissatisfaction, and frustration as they were not taken...
