While the march was organised by the Action Committee of the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC), not all children and pupils who participated in the march knew about it.
Pupils from Naledi High were to march from there and pick up students from the schools on their way to Orlando Stadium.
At Morris Isaacson, students also started gathering, and one of the leaders of the Action Committee also asked pupils to maintain a peaceful march.
At Ibhongo Secondary School, a pupil said the leaders of the Action Committee had told them of the march as they came past, whereafter pupils were allowed to leave their classrooms.
Others reported that it was overwhelmingly WRAB structures and cars that were razed, and that a sympathetic white student had been taken to safety by pupils when police retaliated.
