(NEW YORK) — South Africans marked the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, when the streets of the township south-west of Johannesburg were stained with blood in one of the country’s most notable ...
On this day, June 16, in 1976, about 20,000 South African students took to the streets in Soweto in a protest. The students objected to a decree that forced schools to use Afrikaans as the language of ...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Young people in the new South Africa are struggling to confront AIDS, sexual violence and poverty. Thirty years ago, their predecessors fought to bring down a racist ...
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Reflecting on the 1976 Soweto uprisings
It was at this time that the momentum had already been building up; the Afrikaans language policy was the final straw, and thus began the countdown to the Soweto uprising, a historical moment that ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africans on Thursday commemorated the 40th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the anti-apartheid struggle, a 1976 black student uprising in the Soweto area of Johannesburg ...
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