2000 Students march through Cape Town

Date: 2 Sep 1976
Updated: 22 Aug 2019

A day after the peaceful 1 September march 2000 students from Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu once again marched through the heart of Cape Town's CBD to protest and condemn police brutality, inferior education and segregation laws, and called for the release of all political detainees. Police teargassed the students in an attempt to break up the march. The students at the Cape 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: Wallis, F.(2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau..

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