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Jews, Soviets, and the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa
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Today is a public holiday in South Africa. It's called Youth Day and it commemorates the uprising in Soweto on 16 June 1976.
In short, the apartheid government made a morally bankrupt decision to teach Black pupils in Afrikaans, which was never going to end well, since it was not their mother tongue. Naturally, there was pushback, which ended in street protests and lethal force by the government — another morally bankrupt decision. After all, why use live ammunition on kids? Well, that's exactly what they did, killing some, and the news went global.
But there's another part to the story, often ignored, and that is the significant Soviet and Jewish influence behind the entire event.
Simon Roche, spokesman for Die Suidlanders, gave a politically incorrect breakdown of everything, with some extra bits on former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.