Who could ever forget the picture of a grieving junior high school student, Antoinette Pietersen, running down a street of Soweto alongside a tearful Mbuyisa Makhubu who was cradling the lifeless body of Antoinette's 12-year-old brother, Hector, who had just been shot by Apartheid South Africa’s brutally racist police?
Yes, I am talking about the massacre of South African children, about 200 of them, who had dared protest against the imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in black schools.
This happened 30 years ago, today June 16th. The South African Consulate in Toronto is hosting a cultural event to commemorate Youth Day on Sunday, from 11 am to 4 pm at the Mel Lastman Square. Lets all go and listen to survivor, Charles Mtombeni while we eat pap, biltong, boerewoers (sp) and dance to kwaito, umbaqanga, marabi and kwela.
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My name is Innocent Madawo, a Zimbabwean journalist resident in Toronto Canada. This is my first ever attempt at a blog and I hope I will be able to maintain it as a destination for interesting news and views on current affairs in the whole world. I enjoy news from all parts of the world as much as I enjoy telling stories about my home country, Zimbabwe and my home away from home, Toronto, Canada.
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