Anti-apartheid activists say the public schooling system remains severely broken, unequal, and in a state of chronic crisis decades after the historic 1976 Soweto uprising.
Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto uprising, South Africa’s public schooling system remains deeply divided, leaving millions of poor black learners trapped in under-resourced institutions.
This is according to anti-apartheid activists Sibongile “Bongi” Mkhabela and Fikile Ngcobo.
Mkhabela was one of the student leaders in what became known as the ‘Soweto 11’ trial, following her leading role in the Soweto student uprising of June 16,1976.
She was also a student leader and executive member of the Soweto Students' Representative Council, as well as the general secretary of the South African Students Movement – driving forces behind the student uprising.
