JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africans on Thursday commemorated the 40th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the anti-apartheid struggle, a 1976 black student uprising in the Soweto area of Johannesburg ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist ...

On this day, June 16, in 1976, about 20,000 South African students took to the streets in Soweto in a protest. The students objected to a decree that forced schools to use Afrikaans as the language of ...

SOWETO, South Africa, June 16 -- Tens of thousands of young South Africans gathered in a Soweto soccer stadium Friday to commemorate a bloody uprising 30 years ago that reshaped the struggle to end ...

A South African photographer, who captured the iconic black-and-white picture of a dying 13-year-old activist shot by apartheid police during the 1976 Soweto uprising, has died. His photograph of a ...

As South Africa commemorated the 49th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, political leaders across the spectrum used Youth Day rallies to address pressing issues facing the country’s youth, ...

(NEW YORK) — South Africans marked the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when the streets of the township south-west of Johannesburg were stained with blood in one of the country’s most notable ...