Before dust had settled, another hundred human lives had been extinguished. The next day, the police advanced their argument with helicopters and tanks. Twenty-three demonstrators died more or less instantly. Straight into the crowd of demonstrators. The surrounding police listened with interest to the youth’s reasoning, and then the argued the government’s point in that special manner of the South African authorities. Therefore-said the students-their education should continue to be conducted in English. And that a text was more accessible to the reader if one could interpret the text in question. They were of the opinion that it was easier to learn something when one understood what one’s instructor was saying. So the students went out into the streets to air their disapproval. “On the same day, a bunch of school-aged adolescents in Soweto got tired of the government’s latest idea: that their already inferior education should henceforth be conducted in Afrikaans.
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