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 ...

A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass collective rejection of apartheid South Africa by thousands of working class black youths. The Soweto riots of 1976 were ...

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, ...

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 ...

June 16 was the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto riots, touched off by the killing of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson at the hands of police, who killed hundreds on that day and in the days that followed.

In June 1976, the choir members' home — Soweto — was the site of one of South Africa's worst race riots. Black students started a peaceful protest to oppose a government policy that forced ...

These photographers included Alf Khumalo and Sam Nzima, whose picture of Hector Pieterson, a fallen student in the 1976 Soweto riots, became one of the most potent images of the revolt and of the ...