16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… of Afrikaans alongside English was made compulsory as a medium of instruction in schools in 1974, black students … role was one of labourer, worker, and servant only. As H.F Verwoerd, the architect of the Bantu Education Act (1953) , … Act, 90% of black South African schools were state-aided mission schools. The Act demanded that all such schools …