Soweto uprising (1976)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
protest
gptkbp:casualties over 1,000 injured
at least 176 killed
gptkbp:cause introduction of Afrikaans as medium of instruction in schools
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Hector_Pieterson_Memorial_and_Museum
Youth Day (June 16) in South Africa
gptkbp:date June 16, 1976
gptkbp:governmentResponse violent repression
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soweto uprising (1976)
gptkbp:influenced global anti-apartheid movement
gptkbp:location gptkb:Soweto,_South_Africa
gptkbp:mediaCoverage Sam Nzima's photograph of Hector Pieterson
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:Hector_Pieterson
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:South_African_police
gptkbp:participants black South African students
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:South_African_Students_Movement
apartheid
gptkbp:resultedIn increased anti-apartheid activism
international condemnation of apartheid
gptkbp:significance turning point in South African history
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Political_history_of_South_Africa
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7