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Soul-Searching. In a sense, Soweto has been smoldering ever since June. The government had quickly dropped its insistence that the Afrikaans language be used as the primary teaching medium in black schools-a rule that had been the catalyst for the earlier rioting. But the policy change, along with...
Unlike the bloody riots in Soweto, which were touched off by compulsory teaching in the Afrikaans language in schools, last week's violence was provoked largely by harsh police tactics, including firing pointblank into crowds. Soweto itself was largely quiet, although trains, taxis and buses taking black workers to...
Vorster's response to the Soweto massacre was not a very promising omen for peace in the area. The way to prevent more such violence in the future, he declared, was not to make concessions to blacks on the teaching of Afrikaans but to take even tougher law-and...
Berserk Rule. Despite the official hard line, there were expectations that the Afrikaans requirement would be modified or dropped. "You don't know what stupid subterfuges we have had to use to enable our children to learn something," said one Soweto council member. "We have met the Afrikaans requirement...
Minor Import. What triggered the rioting was an issue that clearly was of minor import to the government, yet had great symbolic importance in the ghetto. In 1974 the Pretoria Government Education Department ruled that students in Soweto's schools−about 250 of them serve at least 200...