South Africa marks 50th anniversary of the 1976 student uprising | Africanews

Fifty years on, Soweto uprising legacy still shadows South Africa

June 16, 1976: South African police killed at least 176 black students in Soweto protesting apartheid education policies—a turning point that helped topple white-minority rule. Fifty years later, 32% unemployment and top-global inequality show how political transitions without economic redistribution fail to deliver promised transformation.