Novels inspired by June 16, and released a few years after the uprising itself would include Sipho Sepamla’s A Ride on the Whirlwind, Mbulelo Mzamane’s Children of Soweto, Mongane Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood and others
In the popular imagination, the mention of June 16 1976 immediately evokes the visceral picture featuring a young man carrying the limp body of a boy in complete school uniform, with a young woman, also in uniform, her head thrown back, her eyes closed, her mouth a wide open in what is clearly a scream of agony.
And to this day,"I Believe" is the only one of Kente’s plays that end in tragedy. In the play, Zwelitsha is a rebellious youth leader who is always at war with a security policeman . Zweli has a vision of the uprising that was to take place, in reality, two years later. It is therefore not surprising that apart from Sarafina and that iconic picture by Nzima, there is a huge body of artistic work inspired by June 16 – everything from poems to paintings; from songs to stage plays; from short stories to novels; from works of autobiography to academic books; from fictional movies to documentaries..
One of the most noteworthy books recently published around June 16 is journalist Sandile Memela's short novel for children. It features a man who was a kid in 1976, after which he fled into exile. With the unbanning of the ANC, he came back from exile. Now, in the book the man who has become a good artist and painter is telling the story of June 16 to his sister's kids.
Bianca Marais, a white South African author, published a novel which was praised by the award-winning author Terry McMillan as follows:"It's a powerful story and one with a perspective many of us haven't read."
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