The history of Apartheid at Soweto

Soweto History continued

    

       One day during the strife of Apartheid, several thousand youth crowded into this large
      Catholic Church for sanctuary.  The soldiers burst in anyway and started shooting at will
     (we saw many bullet  holes in the walls and ceiling.)  The students tried to escape out one
      set of double doors and many were killed in the chaos.

   

                            The soldiers shot off the arms of Jesus and then yelled out,"  Jesus has no

                            hands, who will save you now."  This was told to us by a black lady that

                            lived in Soweto at the time.  The story may be one-sided, one never knows.

The Struggle for Freedom Continued

                                      This young man became famous because someone caught
                                      his heroic actions on camera.  He disappeared, however,
                                      and was never heard from again.  Some thought he may have
                                      escaped to another African Country.

Struggle for Freedom Continued

History of Soweto

                                         This whole period of history is very sad.  Apartheid means keeping
                                the races separate.  The government was the minority party or white.
                                But it's not too different from our own country's story.  Only instead of
                                Nelson Mandela we had Abraham Lincoln.

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