Impact

• For the South African government, the Soweto Uprising marked the most fundamental challenge yet to Apartheid.
• The economic and political instability it was caused was heightened by the strengthening international boycott.
• Many white South African citizens were outraged at the government's actions in Soweto.
• About 300 white students from the University of Witwatersrand marched through the centre of Johannesburg in protest of the killing of children.
• Black workers went on strike as well and joined them as the campaign progressed. Riots also broke out in the black townships of other cities in South Africa.