Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist regime whose legacy still haunts the nation.
The young people who marched June 16, 1976 _ in what came to be known as the Soweto Uprising _ gave new life to the struggle for black power. Reports of police firing bullets on unarmed children awakened the world to the brutality of the apartheid regime.
The students of 30 years ago were protesting inferior schools that kept blacks in squalor and poverty, demanding an education equal to their privileged white counterparts.
Thirty years later and 12 years after the end of apartheid, the nation still has two education systems, according to a report this week by the South African Human Rights Commission.
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