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Light up your future
Writer Taylum Meyer
On Sunday June 16, the Zwelihle Youth Café hosted a Youth Day celebration called ILLUMI- NATE: Light up your future at the RDP centre in Zwelihle.
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The celebrations ran from 14:00 – 20:00 and were opened with speeches by Overberg Deputy Mayor Archie Klaas (below) and other community leaders. Those attending were entertained by a number of activities and performances such as dancing, open mic, face painting, craft workshops and a small market.
When the sun set, all the youngsters joined a march through Zwelihle with lanterns and candles to remember the youth that were killed in the Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976.
Protests started in African schools in 1975 after
Afrikaans was made compulsory as a medium of instruction, alongside English, in secondary schools by the Bantu Education Department. A year later, the uprising that began in Soweto spread nation-wide and the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the South African Students Organisation (SASO) were formed. On 16 June 1976, against the government’s instruction, between 3 000 and 10 000 students mobilised by SASO marched peacefully to join a rally at Orlando Stadium.
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