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June 16, 1976 – What it was like in Soweto on the first day – Daily Friend | SA News

Implausibly, on the morning of 16 June 1976, I first heard there was trouble in Soweto from London.

Editors at NBC, the American broadcast network, telephoned me in Johannesburg to say that students were marching to protest the unequal, segregated school system. Could I get into Soweto, 12 miles from the city, as soon as possible?

On the radio there was no mention of unrest. Television, newly arrived in South Africa, didn’t come on until evening.

After filing a couple quick reports, my wife and I climbed into my battered Ford Escort and headed towards Soweto. On city streets there were no indications that anything was amiss. It was just another Wednesday morning in winter,…

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