Reverend Frederick Modise Drive has been barricaded off to traffic, with law enforcement on the ground monitoring the ...

with police firing live rounds at the gathered children and teenagers. Protesters are pictured during the Soweto Uprising, South Africa, June 21, 1976. The protests were sparked by the South ...

As this time approaches of June 16, I often realise that we just overcame the apartheid system not long ago. I often get that ...

Police are shooting ... but Sikakane’s conclusion is now the consensus about the 1976 Soweto uprising, when some 20,000 students did what their parents could not and rose up against South ...

The uprising started as a student protest against ... with discipline and determination to submit their demands at a Soweto police station. "It was so difficult then, one was not treated as ...

“We grabbed a police dog and stoned it to death,” Kutumela, 18 at the time, said on the eve of the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, which sparked a wave of riots. Thirty years ...

The clashes began when heavily armed police tried to stop the demonstration ... Congress and the Pan African Congress. But with the Soweto uprising, students brought the battle against apartheid ...

Soweto was in flames, and the riots lasted for days. “It was very tense. You didn’t know what to feel, what to say,” says Nontsikelelo. Soon the police started coming around. They accused ...

The police actions during the riots would be part of what instigated ... Over 360 blacks were killed in the Soweto riots of 1976. The South African government basically declared war on black school ...

13-year-old Hector Pieterson, being carried after being shot by police during the 1976 Soweto uprising Credit: AP It also gave rise to one of the enduring mysteries of the era: the disappearance ...

The 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in South Africa is on 16 June ... In 1960 protests erupted into violence, as the police opened fire on a crowd at Sharpeville, 50km south of Johannesburg, ...

When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans in 1976, they were gunned down by the police ... her memories of the Soweto uprising. Eye-witness accounts ...