The official blackout week has been announced to take place from Monday, 15th of June 2022 to Sunday 21st of June 2020.
This coincides with the Soweto uprisings of June 16th, 1976 which spread riots across the country of South Africa which help to break down the impressive brutal racist apartheid regime.
The uprising took place in 1976 in Soweto township, adjacent to the city of Johannesburg. It began as a protest by thousands, mostly students, against the government’s insistence that the Afrikaans language—a language of the white minority that ruled South Africa—be used as the medium of instruction in Soweto’s high schools, which served black Africans. It is estimated that when the police and the army responded to the demonstrators by firing tear gas and then bullets, between 400 and 700 people, many of them children, were killed. That was followed by a cycle of protest and repression that reverberated across the country.
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In view of the recent uprisings all over the world about Black oppression, it is only right that every black man honours the Blackout Week.
It is very important that we stick to buying from black businesses and supporting other black organisations as they grow throughout the week to show our strength and spirit of brotherhood and oneness.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK