President Thabo Mbeki led South Africans through the streets of Soweto on Friday, retracing the steps of protesters who galvanized the anti-apartheid struggle 30 years ago.

The 1976 uprising started as a student protest in Soweto against being forced to study in Afrikaans, the Dutch-based language of the white rulers who designed the system of racial oppression known ...

Protesters are pictured during the Soweto Uprising, South Africa, June 21, 1976. The protests were sparked by the South African government ordering black schools to teach certain subjects in ...

Thirty years after the Soweto uprising, anti-apartheid activists are respected members of society who live in comfortable homes, encapsulating how far South Africa has come in 12 years of ...

Soweto 1976 July 14, 2006 | Pages 8 and 9 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.

But on June 16, 1976, students in Soweto township outside Johannesburg decided to hold a protest against a government policy mandating that all classes be taught in Afrikaans, the language of ...

On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black students in Johannesburg's Soweto township demonstrated against the imposition of the Dutch-based Afrikaans language in schools.

On June 16, 1976 a peaceful march was conducted by the students of Soweto, politically opposing the teaching of Afrikaans in their schools. As the students convened on the corner of Orlando High ...

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 deadly ...

Some 12,000 students converged in the streets of the segregated "township" of Soweto on June 16, 1976, to protest being instructed in Afrikaans--the language of the ruling white minority.