Let’s commemorate, not celebrate and belittle June 16

Let’s commemorate, not celebrate and belittle June 16

On  June 16, 49 years ago, Black Consciousness-inspired school pupils went out to demonstrate against being forced to learn in Afrikaans. It has to be recalled what the attitude of Africans to the language was at the time. It was the language through which apartheid infliction was communicated and felt by the victims. Its sound was a stark reminder of the jackboot of apartheid on our collective neck. While Black Consciousness had rekindled the r…