Word: soweto
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...Zackie Achmat is a dangerous man - to those he sees as perpetrators of injustice. Always has been. Because once he decides to challenge them, he knows no half-measures. At age 14, he tried to burn down his school during the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid education. And that was just the opening act of a teenage activist career that saw him leave high school well acquainted with apartheid's prison cells and with the knuckles of its security policemen. He spent the next two decades as a tireless activist in the struggle to end apartheid, and once that struggle...