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 ...
The Soweto June 16 Uprising 50th anniversary celebrations have received a major boost from the City of Johannesburg, with the launch of the Soweto Unity Concert, set for Orlando Amstel Arena on June ...
A South African photographer, who captured the iconic black-and-white picture of a dying 13-year-old activist shot by apartheid police during the 1976 Soweto uprising, has died. His photograph of a ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The day was a key moment in the long campaign to end South Africa’s ...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist ...
The Beating Heart of South Africa’s Bustling City Life Explore Soweto: A Township Transformed Into a Cultural Powerhouse ...
The iconic South African stage production ‘Sophiatown’ returns to the stage at Soweto Theatre in a powerful revival directed ...
For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brutally enforced a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid -- and just as ruthlessly crushed any opposition. By the 1970s, an ...