The document summarizes protests and violence in South Africa in opposition to apartheid policies. It describes overcrowded and poor conditions in Soweto township outside Johannesburg where most blacks were forced to live. In 1976, student protests against mandatory Afrikaans language instruction turned violent when police fired on demonstrators without warning, spreading clashes across Soweto and resulting in 25 deaths on the first day. Subsequent years saw further violent protests in multiple cities as the anti-apartheid movement grew, with the government arresting many protesters but failing to stop the uprising. By the mid-1980s, the economy was suffering and international pressure was mounting for the apartheid government to reform.

1. The Fight Continues

2. The South African Student´
Organisation

3. Soweto
o Soweto was the huge city for blacks
outside Johannesburg.
o More than half a million mostly
poor blacks live there.
o Their buidings were in a very bad
condition.
o The streets were filled with
rubbish.

5. and then the police began shooting, there was no
warning. there were no orders to break up the
protests
The violence spred from one end of the city to
the other, with fires in Soweto reaching
Alexandra, a township in the northern outskirts
close to some of the rich white suburbs.
twenty five people died on the first day, Soweto
became war zone.
In the 1984, there were violent protests in
townships in several cities. They marched and
carried signs saying "freedom before education“

7. The 12th September 1977,
Steve Biko was killed at a police
checkpoint in Port Elizabeth due to
shock .

8. the number of people arrested grew every
day. Across the country millions of blacks
fought the police and soldiers. in 1961,
Mandela had warned that the south African
government " was sitting on top of a volcano“.

9. In June 1986 the British government warned
that there would be a "bloodbath" if
apartheid did not end soon.
The economy was suffering terribly. The
country´s currency, the rand, fell to its lowest
ever lever on the stock exchange.

10. Mandela WAS A MAN
WHO COULD HELP IN THE
PAST, THE GOVERNMENT WAS
NOT INTERESTED IN
TALKING WITH HIM, BUT NOW
THAT THEY WERE in big troubles
They became VERY INTERESTED in
him , they needed the HELP OF THIS
GREAT MAN, NELSON MANDELA