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Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

We're taking you back nearly five decades to an event that shook the apartheid regime in South Africa to its foundations, the Soweto Uprising.

In 2010, Alan Johnston spoke to one of the organizers about that bloody but impactful time.

It's early on June 16th, 1976 and on Johannesburg's

outskirts the young people of the township of Soweto are about to make their

voices heard. In the hours ahead

demonstrating black school children will be fired on by police in scenes of

violence that will shock the world. A girl called Bongy and

Kabela will be among the protesters. She describes what she felt when the

security forces started shooting. It was fear, the kind of fear that you taste in your mouth.

It was anger, the kind of anger that almost blinds you and it is frustration, absolute frustration. But at the same time,

you know, adrenaline also carries you to just run and run for life.

Every aspect of Bongi and Cabela's childhood had been marked by the injustices of

apartheid, along with many other increasingly politicized young people,

she had decided that it was time to make a stand.

She was elected to represent her high school on a council that made preparations for a day of peaceful protest.

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