JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The day was a key moment in the long campaign to end South Africa's harsh apartheid system of white-minority rule. Forty years ago, black students in Johannesburg's Soweto township ...

Nzima's photo is the centerpiece of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum which shows history of the Soweto students' uprising on June 16, 1976. The museum was opened in Soweto in 2002 and is one ...

The other shoe dropped with a loud thud last week in South Africa. After eleven months of mounting black violence, Executive President P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 riot-torn cities ...

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 ...

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Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who chronicled decades of violence during the country's apartheid era including the Soweto student uprising of 1976, died Monday aged 91, his family ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The day was a key moment in the long campaign to end South Africa’s ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tributes are being paid following the death of Sam Nzima, the South African photographer who took the iconic image of a black high school student carrying a fatally wounded fellow ...

JOHANNESBURG • Forty years ago, black students in Johannesburg’s Soweto township marched in protest against South Africa’s harsh apartheid system of white-minority rule, and some were gunned down by ...

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