Date: 2 September, 1976

2000 students from Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu march through the heart of Cape Town's CBD to protest and condemn police brutality, inferior education, segregation laws, and called for the release of all political detainees. Police teargassed the students in an attempt to break up the march. Cape students were influenced by the 16 June 1976 uprising of Soweto school children to take action against apartheid and demand better education.

Click here for a chronology of the June 16 uprising in the Western Cape.

References:

1. Wallis, F.(2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau..