The Soweto Uprising by Wikipedia

I decided to search the South African Soweto uprising as the historical topic to look up on Wikipedia. This was a student protest turned horribly violent in 1976. After skimming over the article I reached the sources and began clicking on links in a random fashion.

Most of the sites I came across were articles based on the event, and others were short historical overviews. None of what I came across were very in depth, and lacked details of the uprising. One source that I was taken back by was the 20th one, which was this, and what shocked me was that it is a blog and it has not been updated since 2010. Usually blogs are not considered to be anything scholarly and lacked in the credibility of most other sites. I looked through the blog and found that it was more extensive on the topic than most of the more reliable sources. After spending a bit of time perusing around I found that the site had won the new media award from Highway Africa. This gave me a bit more hope in Wikipedia. While some sources seemed to not have substantial amount of facts they were all mostly able to check out as solid sources.

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