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Youth resistance and the Soweto uprising 1976

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Young people became central, above all in the students' uprising against the use of Afrikaans in schools.

OCR · South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the State (J410/05) - Growing resistance and repression c.1970s

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South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the State (J410/05) - Growing resistance and repression c.1970s (OCR GCSE)

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