Government has launched a national commemoration programme to honour 50 years since the historic 1976 student uprising.

SOWETO, South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans through the streets of this black township on Friday, retracing the steps of student protesters who galvanized the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans on Thursday commemorated the 40th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the anti-apartheid struggle, a 1976 black student uprising in the Soweto area of Johannesburg ...

All David Kutumela could think about when South African police gunned down his school mates 30 years ago was how to get his hands on an AK-47. “We grabbed a police dog and stoned it to death,” ...

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising with the IMAX release of SARAFINA!, a film that pays tribute to the brave youth who protested against apartheid.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's ...

Hundreds of South Africans, including for the first time white apartheid era conscripts, on Saturday united to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising. "They tried to march, they were ...

Drawing parallels between the anti-apartheid resistance of 1976 and present-day economic hardship, Myende said the country’s ...

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