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Soweto, 30 years after the uprising
On the morning of June 16 1976, a crowd of 10,000 black students gathered in the South African township of Soweto. They were demonstrating against a decree from the apartheid government that all pupils must learn Afrikaans in school. The protest was peaceful, but police opened fire, and at least 566 people were killed in the events that followed. The massacre brought the brutality of the racist regime to the attention of the world - and, some say, marked the beginning of the end for apartheid. Thirty years on, award-winning photographer Gideon Mendel travelled to Soweto to find out how life is now.
Accompanying the photos is the singing of the Morris Isaacson School Boys' Choir. Listen to the audio and watch the photo story unfold. Move your cursor over the photographs to read the captions. You can also click on the individual photo thumbnails to read captions in full.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,1798392,00.html
Photos:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,1798392,00.html
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