The Soweto Uprising and the 300 years of Oppression
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...that led to it. #YouthDay #SouthAfrica #History
Every year, on June 16th, South Africa remembers the young students who lost their lives in the fight against Apartheid.
Once you research the history of this beautiful country, you begin to realise just how crippling the injustices were against people of colour. Injustices rooted in centuries of inhumane treatment that plunged people of colour into absolute poverty.
In this video we explore how three centuries of slavery, colonialism, and Apartheid (collectively) gave way to the Soweto Uprising - an event that saw thousands of youth unite against an unequal system. And how this ultimately, played a key role in demolishing Apartheid.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:29 Viewer Discretion
00:38 Apartheid & Dutch Colonialism
02:01 British Colonialism & Dutch Migration
03:12 Discovery of Diamonds
03:52 Oppression Summarised
04:06 Cycle of Exploitation
04:29 Introduction of Pass Laws
05:03 Indentured Labour
05:24 The Boer War (1899-1902)
06:58 People of Colour Marginalised
07:11 The Union of South Africa
08:45 The Start of Opposition Groups
08:58 The ANC
09:32 Things get worse
10:00 Apartheid Begins
10:26 The National Party
10:47 British vs Afrikaner Ideologies
11:42 The Racial Hierarchy
12:39 Apartheid in Action
12:51 The Group Areas Act
13:30 Pass Laws
13:57 The Separate Amenities Act
14:20 The Bantu Education Act
14:40 A Multiracial Fight Against Apartheid
15:10 The Oppressed Fight Back
15:50 The Youth Lead the Way
16:06 The Afrikaans Medium Decree
17:07 The Build Up to Youth Day
17:46 The Youth March
19:04 Hector Pieterson
19:47 Final Words
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Images used under the creative commons license:
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1. Slaves working on a coffee plantation
Author: Marc Ferrez
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese..../resources/idt-sh/lu
2. African Slave Trade Image
Author: Blake William O
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:HOS_D123_A
3. Malay Choir
Author: Manu Herbstein
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Malay_choi
4. Women at the Ndebele Cultural Village
Author: Humansdorpie at English Wikipedia.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Ndebele-wo
5. Premier Diamond Mine (in South Africa)
Author: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Premier_Di
6. Illustration of a road to diamond fields from the book Seven Years in South Africa, volume 1, page 40
Author: Johann Varron
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Seven_Year
7. Meeting between Baustos returning from diamond fields and other going thither from the book Seven Years in South Africa, volume 1, page 213
Author: Johann Varron
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Seven_Year
8. Washing plant of De Beers diamond mines at Kimberley
Author: Creswicke, Louis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/....internetarchivebooki
9. A pass book or Dompass, exhibited as an artefact of Apartheid at the Womens Gaol, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
Author: Islahaddow
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Womens_Gao
10. Explanation of South African identity numbers in an identity document during apartheid in terms of official White, Coloured and Indian population subgroups
Author: HelenOnline, Government of South Africa
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:ApartheidP
11. East Indian Women, Men and Children
Author: SMU Central University Libraries
https://www.flickr.com/photos/....smu_cul_digitalcolle
12. Emotional states of the first Indian labourers upon reaching the shores of Mauritius
Author: Oderuth
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Visual_Art
14. British soldiers tending the wounded Boers
Author: Science Museum Group
https://wellcomeimages.org/ind....explus/obf_images/bf
15. Black, Chinese and White laborers in a gold mine in South Africa
Author: Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/....pnp/cph/3a40000/3a40
16. Boer War: British soldiers outside their tent in camp at Chi
Source: Science Museum Group
https://wellcomeimages.org/ind....explus/obf_images/1c
17. Protests against Apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s
Source: Paul Weinberg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Anti-Apart
18. Hector Pieterson
Owner: Sam Nzima
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