Major conflict1976

Soweto Uprising

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Soweto · Johannesburg

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Township uprising sparked by the Afrikaans-medium decree, opening a decade of mass unrest.

Belligerents1

South Africa

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Soweto Uprising (1976). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/soweto-uprising · Sources & methodology