Youth Day is holiday celebrating the youth.
Angola
On the 14 April Angola celebrates youth day.
South Africa
On 16 June South Africa commemorates the start of the Soweto Riots of 1976, initially sparked off by a government edict that all instruction in black schools would be held in Afrikaans. The iconic picture of Hector Pieterson, a black schoolchild shot by the police, brought home to many people within and outside South Africa the brutalities of the Apartheid regime.
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