They collected memories and newscast accounts of the uprising that began on June 16, 1976, in the schools of Soweto and spread throughout the white-controlled country. Nelson Mandela was in prison.

The most overtly political track, “Ubusuku”, commemorates the 1976 Soweto uprising and the killing of schoolboy Hector Pieterson with urgent Xhosa rock and mourning saxophone.

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.

Rapsody, the acclaimed American rapper, will be in Soweto on July 18 as part of the ‘UPRISING: A Night Walk Through Memory, Music, and Resistance’ event.

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

The First United Methodist of Church of Germantown took a journey back in time to the Soweto student uprising recently. The church along with the Philadelphia chapter of the African ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end apartheid.

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, ...

Artists, from playwrights novelists, painters to moviemakers, have played a major role in keeping the story of the June 16 1976 Uprising alive. Fred Khumalo looks at some of the more recent works of ...

SOWETO, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans on a march Friday in the footsteps of children whose bloody uprising 30 years ago reshaped the struggle to end ...

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 ...