Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren's Revolt That Shook Apartheid - Paperbackby Baruch Hirson (Author), Shula Marks (Foreword by) 'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries old white rule in this country.' Nelson Mandela Originally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of Ash is an eye opening account of how, in June 1976, 20,000 school students faced down the tanks and guns of a vicious racist regime, in a