The Water Wheel July-August 2016

Abstract

Fluid Thoughts Fluid Thoughts The 2016 youth project June 16, 1976 was a landmark day in South Africa’s history. Like the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 stimulated a new global dialogue and mobilised the international community against the Apartheid state, 1976 was a point of inflection in the struggle inside the country. It revealed to South Africans and the world not only the acute inhumanity of the Apartheid project, but the youth provided a new dimension of the war against what is arguably the cruelest social engineering project in modern history. Looking back, the narrative is an interesting one. The 1976 project had a short-term project objective for the learners, first in Soweto, and then rapidly catching fire in the townships around the country. That was to eradicate the terrible ‘Bantu education’ system, a grossly unjust and disempowering education system for Blacks, the legacy of which we still have to deal with up to today.

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