Soweto Uprising NPR's Kenneth Walker visits the site of a pivotal protest in the South African struggle against apartheid: a Soweto schoolyard where the government opened fire on thousands of ...

On arriving in Soweto, "we could see the buildings on fire and the smoke," she told AFP. She immediately tried to locate her brother, Hastings Ndlovu, a 17-year-old student in the township.

President Thabo Mbeki led South Africans through the streets of Soweto on Friday, retracing the steps of protesters who galvanized the anti-apartheid struggle 30 years ago.