Fifty years after the Soweto Uprising, double-bassist and former anti-apartheid activist Leon Bosch explores how he learned ...

June 1976 is not just another chapter in the history books, nor is its aftermath and legacy, say those who took part and their families ...

President Ramaphosa honours the youth of 1976 as South Africa marks 50 years since the historic Soweto Uprising.

Hundreds of South Africans, including for the first time white apartheid era conscripts, on Saturday united to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soweto uprising. “They tried to march, they were ...

Miriam Makeba sang a famous song about the 16 June 1976 uprising in her birthplace, South Africa. The protest was a pivotal point in the fight against apartheid and white minority rule in the country.

Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa’s sudden Grade 4 shift to English instruction creates an academic cliff, proving mother-tongue education remains vital for mathematical ...

On June 16 1976, South Africa witnessed the explosive beginning of the Soweto Uprising, a student-led revolt that would shake the foundations of apartheid and echo across the world. What began as a ...

South African churchgoers of all races prayed for a lasting peace in the black townships where an estimated 109 people were killed in racial violence in the last week. Buffeted by icy winter wind ...

On Monday, 15 June 2026, learners from two historical schools in Orlando West, Soweto, gathered for an interactive seminar on the state of education 50 years after the 1976 Soweto uprising. Held at ...

On 16 June, 1976 South Africa’s apartheid regime brutally repressed a protest in Soweto by children in their school uniforms, marching against the provision of education in Afrikaans. On that day, ...

Half a century after an uprising that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa, little remains on the streets of Soweto to mark the blood spilled there. The scarlet paint once meant to evoke the ...

Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa's sudden Grade 4 shift to English instruction creates an academic cliff, proving mother-tongue education remains vital for mathematical ...