THE AZANIAN
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Memoirs of a survivor
I remember on the 15 June 1976, just two months after my 16th birthday, when I woke up early in the morning, before the usual time, to prepare myself to go to school at Lofentse... As I was about to leave, I heard my mother from her bedroom saying, "Thabiso don't forget to pay the rent before going to school". I didn't care about being punished for arriving late at school as I rushed to the officce to pay rent.
June 1976 was an extraordinary cold winter month, and the air was full of tension, when I went to school.
Lofentse secondary was a school that should not have existed, I thought to myself, as I walked down the Mooki street in Orlando East, on my way to Lofentse to be taught Bantu education in Afrikaans...
Little did I know that I'll soon find myself caught between flying bullets from R 4 assault rifles of the security forces of the Apartheid system, and their vicious police dogs, or becoming a victim of a stampede, caught up in grey dense clouds of suffocating teargas, accompanied by rattling sounds of helicopters above Soweto skies...
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