The youth uprising spreads across Cape Town townships

The centre coordinated research, international campaigns and support for action against apartheid, institutionalizing the United Nations' anti-apartheid work.

Thousands of school students marched against compulsory Afrikaans instruction and Bantu Education. Police opened fire, killing Hector Pieterson, Hastings Ndlovu and others, and the revolt spread...

The uprising continued as young people and residents confronted police and symbols of apartheid authority. News of the killings drove solidarity protests elsewhere.

Students met to support the Soweto uprising and decided to boycott classes, helping carry youth resistance into the Western Cape.

About 20,000 residents marched along the Soweto Highway while students called on workers to stay away. The action connected student revolt with working-class power.

Students from three Cape high schools organized a demonstration to coincide with a general strike called by student leaders in Johannesburg.

An estimated 200,000 Coloured workers stayed away on 15 and 16 September, linking worker action to the expanding youth revolt.

Renewed confrontation showed that the June uprising had developed into a sustained challenge involving schools, workers and township communities.

Nine Black Consciousness activists were convicted after a lengthy political trial; six received six-year terms and three received five-year terms on Robben Island.

Security police re-arrested Biko under apartheid security laws as the state intensified repression of Black Consciousness after the 1976 uprising.