The starvation for equality behind a schoolchildren's revolt in South Africa 30 years ago has not yet been convinced,says David JohnsonI arrived in London on June 16 1976, on the second leg of a six-city European tour. I had just turned 18 a few days before, or while in Rome,and I was feeling very pleased with myself, convinced that, and on my visit to the papal city,the Pope had picked me out of the crowd to wave at. I was travelling with a group of high school students from South Africa.
The television set in the small hotel room in London was a novelty, the technology having only reached South Africa that year, and I moved to turn it on. That moment would have a profound and long-lasting impact on the direction my life would remove. When the set crackled into life and the picture stabilised (the conventional valve sets needed a bit of time to warm up) the images that came into view at first confused and then shocked me.
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Source: theguardian.com