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Hello, this is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

We started broadcasting our first-hand accounts from the past back in 2009.

This week, 10 years on, we're bringing you some of the most remarkable programs from our early

days.

Today we're heading to South Africa in the 1970s

and to the Soweto uprising

when even the very young paid with their lives

for challenging the white supremacist apartheid regime.

In 2010, Alan Johnston spoke to one of the former students who played a key part in that

uprising.

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 Bongi 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.

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