Happy Youth Day!

Today is National Youth Day in South Africa! The holiday started after Nelson Mandela became president, but it was started becauae of the  shooting of Hector Peterson in 1976. School children decided to protest the government because they were forced to learn Africans as a first language in school, even though they all had different native languages around the country. They started a peaceful march on June 16th to show their disagreance, and police started shooting. Along with Hector Peterson, 69 other children died that day.