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 ...

For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brutally enforced a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid -- and just as ruthlessly crushed any opposition. By the 1970s, an ...

SOWETO, South Africa – President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans through the streets of this black township on Friday, retracing the steps of student protesters who galvanized the ...

June 14, 2006, 12:26 PM EDT / Source: Reuters All David Kutumela could think about when South African police gunned down his school mates 30 years ago was how to get his hands on an AK-47. “We grabbed ...

DAVID WHITEHOUSE tells the story of the revolt that rocked a Cold War ally of the U.S.--the monstrous apartheid dictatorship in South Africa. THIRTY YEARS ago, Black students in South Africa opened a ...

More than 500 people are killed over the next eight months, a quarter of them under age 18. Thirty years ago, the uprising of a group of schoolchildren changed South Africa forever. For decades, the ...

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 to a ...