Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chilly dawn at Pretoria's Central Prison, five men stepped up to five gallows, accompanied only by a hangman, a physician and a prison official. At a signal from the official, the hangman pulled a single lever, springing five trapdoors. Church bells tolled in the black ghetto of Soweto 40 miles away, while cries of anguish and indignation reverberated around the world...
Indeed, far from deterring ANC activities, the hangings are likely to bring increased violence. This week marks the seventh anniversary of the riots that began in Soweto in June 1976 over a government regulation requiring the use of the Afrikaans language in the schools. Over a period of 16 months, 700 people died. Amid the heightened racial tensions accompanying that anniversary, many South African blacks will be mindful of the message sent by the mother of Jerry Mosololi on the eve of his death: "Go well, my son. You must know the struggle will not end even after your death...
...director of the IRRC's South Africa Review Service, notes, however, that U.S. bank loans have also been constrained by two additional factors: heavy borrowing by the South African government in the early 1970s which pushed loans at several U.S. banks to their ceilings, and a feeling after the Soweto riots in 1976 that any loans to the country were a high-risk proposition. In the last year, as much of the previous debt has been paid off and the memory of Soweto has dimmed, bank lending has begun to creep upward again...
...student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
Outraged by gross disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start...