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...Soweto: the Students Take Over...
...cause of the black-on-black mayhem was a drive by young black students to expand further the power they have wielded in the ghettos since last June, when the bloodiest racial demonstrations in South African history shook the country. Back then it was Soweto, the huge (pop. 1.2 million), black suburb of Johannesburg, that erupted. The violence there, touched off by black anger over the forced use of the whites' Afrikaans language in black school instruction, spread rapidly. Since then, effective political power in Soweto, as well as some other black enclaves, has migrated to an underground organization...
Like Qoboza, Khotso Seatloho, the 19-year-old president of the Soweto Students Representative Council sought by the police, espouses nonviolent steps for change, The New York Times reported...
This summer, however, the Times said that Seatholo's group took a leadership role in the riots that flared in Soweto last June...
...Boraine said he sees the situation in South Africa changing, as blacks begin to fight back. In the last six months, he pointed out, the Soweto students have shown willingness to die for their stand against apartheid...