Analysis - In an interview wherein he was asked to demonstrate the potency of black consciousness, Steve Biko answered in one word, 'Soweto'. South Africa: The June 16 Uprising Unshackled - a ...

The black-and-white photo of his body being carried away by a student in tears, Pieterson's clearly distressed sister alongside him, became the iconic image of the Soweto uprising. The photo, ...

As the country marks the anniversary of what is known as the Soweto Uprising—which has now been designated a national holiday, Youth Day—here are five things you should know about an event ...

The 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in South Africa is on 16 June: the day school pupils took to the streets of a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to protest against the standards of ...

More than 500 young people were estimated killed in the Soweto Uprising and its bloody aftermath. Thousands of others disappeared into detention or fled the country to join the guerrilla fight ...

Dan Montsitsi, a student leader of the uprising, said the maiden Soweto march had been planned for months. "We were amazed with the number of students that we had been able to put in the streets ...

The Soweto uprising and the riots that spread to other township are seen as a milestone in the growth of the movement against white minority rule, which was finally ended in 1994. In a sombre speech, ...

Thousands have attended a rally to mark the anniversary of the Soweto uprising in South Africa, with the focus this year on Nelson Mandela's health. Thousands of people have attended a rally to ...

In 2010, march organiser Bongi Mkhabela told Alan Johnston about her memories of the Soweto uprising. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by ...

Seth Mazibuko, a leader of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising, poses for a photograph at the Hector Pieterson Memorial site, 14 June 2022, in Orlando West, Soweto. He was arrested in July 1976 at ...

The Soweto Uprising was a symbol of national refusal to bend to the systematic endeavours of the apartheid state to reinvent the African identity by imposing Afrikaans as a vehicle for the acquisition ...

Join our Whatsapp channel SOWETO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off a three-nation African trip on Sunday paying tribute to the Soweto Uprising, a student protest whose tragic ending ...