Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter
Question
Would the ANC have received the amount of support it did if this event didn't occur?
Soweto Massacre, 1976
•1976 black students protested that they had to be educated in Afrikaans
•Revolt in Soweto and other townships resulted in as many as 575 deaths
•Prominent youth leader Steve Biko was beaten to death by police
•Youth became very active in the ANC after this
•“Total Strategy” was devoloped where they sabotaged SA cities
•Civil disobedience, strikes, boycotts and even more violent measures continued and increased
•Revolt in Soweto and other townships resulted in as many as 575 deaths
•Prominent youth leader Steve Biko was beaten to death by police
•Youth became very active in the ANC after this
•“Total Strategy” was devoloped where they sabotaged SA cities
•Civil disobedience, strikes, boycotts and even more violent measures continued and increased
Summary
Black students in the Soweto township located in SA revolted against education in Afrikaans in 1976. There were 575 deaths because of police brutality. Youth then became involved in the ANC and began to commence a revolution against the Apartheid.