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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg turned bloody. Thousands of mostly black students lined the streets, refusing to go to school until ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- Once a battlefront in the anti-apartheid struggle, the vast township of Soweto -- from its iron shacks to its expanding stock of luxury homes -- is now brimming with ...

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. Submitted by Ed on September ...

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 ...