Students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans in schooling and the wider system of Bantu Education. Police fired on demonstrators, and the uprising spread. The students challenged an educational order designed around racial subordination. Their action made language, knowledge and the future of Black youth central to the struggle against apartheid.
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What was the immediate educational issue behind the Soweto march?
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The language protest formed part of a wider rejection of Bantu Education and its racial hierarchy.
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