Soweto at 50: Why Apartheid's Shadow Still Divides South Africa

Soweto at 50: Why Apartheid's Shadow Still Divides South Africa

Fifty years after students protested apartheid in Soweto, South Africa's township schools remain poor and cut off from opportunity. Youth unemployment tops 45 percent. The end of apartheid removed racist laws but left the same unequal neighborhoods and economic divides in place. Young people today still fight for the education their parents demanded in 1976.

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