It is a day violently etched on the South African collective conscience. commemorated over 30 years later as Youth Day, an official holiday, it is the day that honours the deaths of hundreds of schoolchildren from numerous Sowetan schools who protested in the streets in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. An estimated 20 000 students took part in the protests and roughly 276 people were killed. This day changed the course of the country's history.
