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 SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid.
The fight then was against a racist regime that confined black students to inferior schools and forced them to learn in a language they did not understand.
Today, Mbeki told tens of thousands of young people gathered in a Soweto soccer stadium, they must rise up against poverty, illiteracy, violence and AIDS.
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