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 ...

Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg turned bloody. Thousands of mostly black students lined the streets, refusing to go to school until ...

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 ...

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 ...

June 14, 2006, 12:26 PM EDT / Source: Reuters 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 ...

Scores of students were killed in protests over government mandates. Ms. Nontsikelelo Makhubu is seen next to the iconic photograph by Sam Nzima showing Hector Pieterson being carried away during the ...

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Eddie Conway: Welcome to The Real News. I’m Eddie Conway coming to you from Baltimore. Forty-one years ago, in 1976 on June the 16th, somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand high school students decided ...

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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 anti-apartheid struggle 30 years ...

JOHANNESBURG – South Africans are commemorating the 40th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the anti-apartheid struggle, a 1976 black student uprising in the Soweto area of Johannesburg that led to a ...