Fifty years ago this month, South African police opened fire on Black high school students protesting apartheid-era education policies in Soweto. The uprising became a catalyst for the anti-apartheid movement. According to Al Jazeera, a half-century after apartheid's end, significant questions remain about what has transformed in post-apartheid South Africa and what persistent inequalities still divide the country.

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