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The Soweto uprising, June 16, 1976: When high-school students in Soweto started protesting for better education on 16 June 1976, police responded with teargas and live bullets. It is commemorated today by a South African national holiday, Youth Day, which honors all the young people who lost their lives in the struggle against Apartheid and Bantu Education. In 1953, the Apartheid Government enacted the Bantu Education Act, which established a Black Education Department in the Department of Native Affairs. The role of this department was to compile a curriculum that suited the "nature and requirements of the black people." The author of the legislation, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (then Minister of Native Affairs, later Prime Minister), stated: blacks (Natives) must be taught from an early age that equality with Europeans [whites] is not for them." Blacks were not to receive an education that would lead them to aspire to positions they wouldn't be allowed to hold in society. Instead, they were to receive education designed to provide them with skills to serve their own people in the homelands or to work in laboring jobs under whites.
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