Back home she resumes her job as a physiotherapist in Soweto . Then in June 1976 Soweto school children start protesting about their inferior education and being taught in Afrikaans . They go on a rampage , which includes killing white welfare workers . The police brutally put down the uprising , resulting in hundreds of deaths . In October 1977 , many organisations and people critical of the white government are banned , and in November 1977 Rosa Burger is detained . Her lawyer , who also represented her father , expects charges to be brought against her of furthering the aims of the banned SACP and African National Congress ( ANC ) , and of aiding and abetting the students ' revolt
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Soweto uprising
Burger's Daughter