It is disingenuous to report on June 1976 as though youth, amorphous youth, just woke up one morning in June 1976 and effected resistance to the apartheid regime.

There is a period before 1976 (1969 to 1976) of resistance activity, police harassment, bannings and so on. The turmoil caused by Onkgopotse Tiro’s speech in 1974; the banning and hounding of Black Consciousness activities; the spiteful (to the regime) Viva Frelimo rallies in 1974; the then much publicised SA Students' Organisation (Saso)/Black People's Convention (BPC) trial that followed, at which the Black Consciousness Movement was charged with "terrorism" hardly constitutes “a lowest ebb” of resistance...