The bloody day of June 16, 1976 will remain for a long time an open wound in the hearts of South Africans. The Apartheid regime deployed a brutal repression of a protest led by ten to twenty thousand Black students from the township of Soweto, near Johannesburg, denouncing a law imposing Afrikaans as the language of instruction. Police tear-gassed, beat and even shot the students, killing 176. Nevertheless, the bravery of the Soweto students marked a turning point in the history of the Apartheid regime, which then became increasingly contested by Black movements in South Africa and by the international community. The township of Soweto, whose name stands for SOuth-WEstern TOwnships, is at the same time a symbol of the struggle for racial equality and of segregation. Founded in the 1930s as a result of segregationist policies, Black residents of Johannesburg were forcibly moved to townships reserved for Black people, such as Soweto. Such townships were separated from White townships...