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Why did students in Soweto protest on June 16, 1976?

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In 1976 Soweto was the site of a massive uprising known as the Soweto Rebellion, which began as a protest against the government's insistence that the Afrikaans language be used as the medium of instruction in Soweto's high schools.

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