Their first meeting…
When Todd attended the Vuka Îbambe Higher Primary School in Soweto, she met Thembi Nyandeni, who had grown up in the township of Soweto.
“We just clicked! She knew that I was an outsider coming from another town; I was being bullied by the other kids. Thembi stopped all that. Later I moved to another school, losing contact with Thembi.”
“We just clicked! She knew that I was an outsider coming from another town; I was being bullied by the other kids. Thembi stopped all that. Later I moved to another school, losing contact with Thembi.”
Although the two friends had lost physical contact with each other, their lives ran parallel, with both girls choosing a career in the entertainment world as singers and dancers.
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Soweto shot to prominence in the world press due to the tragic events of 16 June, 1976, when several thousand Black students took to the streets to protest against being educated in Afrikaans, the language of the apartheid regime. The police confronted them and opened fire…
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Thembi and a school friend outside the Vuka Îbambe Higher Primary School in Soweto. The classes were taught in Afrikaans and because of this the 1976 Soweto uprising occurred.
