SOWETO – The photo is iconic to South Africans as it was similar to one of the Kent State killings in the United States 40 years ago. This horrific moment in time educated the world about the… ...

Soweto student uprising was the turning point that would lead to the downfall of apartheid. ... It is estimated that more than 20,000 students — in school uniform — turned out for the protest.

BBC Africa bureaux editor Milton Nkosi was a schoolboy in Soweto at the time of the uprising of 16 June 1976. ... We lost concentration as we began to look through the windows. I saw thousands of high ...

The students, most of whom were in their school uniforms, ... Seape, a student at Fort Hare near Cape Town at the time, travelled to the capital Johannesburg and heard about the Soweto uprising.

Sacrifices made during Soweto student uprising led to abolition of apartheid in 1994, South African president says 16.06.2017 - Update : 16.06.2017 FILE PHOTO ...

South Africa on Thursday marked 40 years since the Soweto uprising, when security forces fired on black students in a massacre that triggered a new era of anti-apartheid resistance. The 1976 protests, ...

On June 16, 1976, thousands of black students spilled into the streets of Soweto against a government order that South African schools could only teach in the Afrikaans language used by whites. As ...

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 ...

Join us as we commemorate June 16, a pivotal moment in South African history, through the eyes of two millennial journalists.

Former student activist Oupa Molota was an eyewitness to the 1976 Soweto uprising, now seen as a milestone in the struggle against Apartheid. Home. News. Sport. Radio. TV. ... Today the 'Soweto ...