Soweto's Unfinished Reckoning: Half a Century Later, Structural Inequality Persists

Fifty years after students protested apartheid's language mandates in Soweto, South Africa's township schools remain underfunded and geographically isolated. Youth unemployment exceeds 45 percent. Democracy dismantled formal apartheid but left intact the spatial and economic architecture it created. The 1976 uprising demanded educational agency; the generation that followed still lacks it.