The student protesters were met with deadly force ... As the country marks the anniversary of what is known as the Soweto Uprising—which has now been designated a national holiday, Youth Day ...

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 ...

SOWETO, South Africa – President Thabo ... forever changing the face of the anti-apartheid struggle. The uprising started as a student protest against being taught in Afrikaans, the language ...

Pietersen was the first victim of the “Soweto uprising” which gave birth to the movement that defeated apartheid. It is estimated that more than 20,000 students — in school uniform ...

But with the Soweto uprising, students brought the battle against apartheid to the urban areas and townships. About 150 people were killed in the first week and nearly 700 died in the year of ...

South Africa commemorates Youth Month in honour of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, when brave students stood against an oppressive ...

Although the Bantu Education enabled more Black children to attend school in Soweto, it still had lack of facilities and teachers, and overcrowded classrooms. After years of struggle, students ...

On 16 June 1976, thousands of South African students took to the streets of Soweto to protest against white-minority rule. Hundreds were killed in the police response, which profoundly changed the ...

"When the shooting started, I was not sure it was a gun," said Moloto, who now works with a foundation dedicated to the Soweto student uprising. "It sounded like a cracker. Until I saw a boy was ...

What came to be known as the Soweto Uprising started as a student protest against being taught in Afrikaans, the language of the white oppressor. As rioting spread, it drew world attention to the ...