Now Trending On Twitter: #YouthDay2016

So #YouthDay2016 is one of the top trends on twitter. For those who don't know, South Africa is commemorating the SOWETO uprising that saw the protest of students from various high schools in South Africa pushing a movement against the then Apartheid Government Bantu Education System. The movement happened in 1976, up to 176 youths were killed and thousands were injured.

Fast forward to today, South African's are reacting on twitter. See tweets after the cut...

"Be the scriptwriters of your destiny & feature yourselves as stars that showed the way..." #YouthDay2016 pic.twitter.com/UiOoQqCW8R

— NelsonMandela (@NelsonMandela) June 16, 2016

Hector Pieterson or Tsietsi Mashinini

— Bridgette (@BridgetteThiyo) June 16, 2016

Mbuyisa Makhubo's sister Nontsikelelo says he was a human ambulance on June 16, 1976. Didn't carry Hector 'Pieterson' only but others too.

— Solethu (@LoyisoSidimba) June 16, 2016

Hasting Ndlovu
Tebogo Tsietsi Mashinini
Hector Pieterson
Youth Of 76

— #OnTheLow (@Morolong_ZL) June 16, 2016

Sadly, #40YearsLater on this #YouthDay2016 the picture is still similar in South Africa. pic.twitter.com/ZZ5oOF33lO

— Ulrich J van Vuuren (@UlrichJvV) June 16, 2016

If you're in SA today...especially if you're Black, you have every reason to thank and give gratitude to the youth of 1976. #YouthDay2016

— Nobesuthu Cele (@ma_Ndosi) June 16, 2016

Enjoy #YouthDay2016, friends. Enjoy the freedom that 40-years-ago some brave, brave kids fought & died for. SA is better because of them.🇿🇦

— Joe Crann (@YesWeCrann) June 16, 2016

Demonizing young girls for teenage pregnancy amounts to victimization for a societal problem. @RediTlhabi #YouthDay2016

— Basani Maluleke (@Mholombo) June 16, 2016

And back up it goes, despite ANC threats @Our_DA @DA_GautengNorth @SollyMsimanga #YouthDay2016 pic.twitter.com/ZUj2aZRKkJ

— Willie Venter (@Willie_Venter) June 16, 2016

Long live the spirit of the class of 1976, long live!!! #YouthDay2016 pic.twitter.com/XUd8bTvNJW

— #RACEagainsttime (@KatlegoMaboe) June 16, 2016

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" #YouthDay2016

— #UmoyaWamiMsayibo (@djmsayibo) June 16, 2016

On #YouthDay2016, let us remember those brave students who defended their rights to equal education.#HappyYouthDay pic.twitter.com/bJtCYN6aMl

— Armand Du Plessis (@ArmandDuPMrSA) June 16, 2016

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