Today we went to see the Hector Pieterson memorial. We learned about all the hard work that the students of Soweto put into their plan to march and to peacefully protest against the education rules the Afrikaans had put in place. We walked along the route in which the students marched. Along this, we saw just what the Afrikaans had left the black majority to live in and also the place where Hector was shot. Booysie, who was at the march back in 1976, taught us about the truth behind all the events that lead to and followed the Soweto uprisings. The educational experience meant that we got a deeper understanding of what lead the black majority in Soweto to where they are today.
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