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 ...

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 ...

People attend a commemoration at the Hector Petersen Memorial in Soweto on the 45th anniversary of the Soweto uprising Wednesday, June 16, 2021. On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of black ...

SOWETO, South Africa (AP) _ Hundreds of singing and dancing young South Africans joined President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday as he retraced the steps of a protest march thousands of Soweto schoolchildren ...

On that day, high school students in Soweto began protesting against the introduction of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in local schools as part of the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974. The ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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People attend a commemoration at the Hector Petersen Memorial in Soweto on the 45th anniversary of the Soweto uprising Wednesday, June 16, 2021. On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of black ...