A South African photographer, who captured the iconic black-and-white picture of a dying 13-year-old activist shot by apartheid police during the 1976 Soweto uprising, has died. His photograph of a ...

More than 500 people are killed over the next eight months, a quarter of them under age 18. Thirty years ago, the uprising of a group of schoolchildren changed South Africa forever. For decades, the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting ...

While the world waits and watches as 94-year-old Nelson Mandela’s health rises and falls, Kinderhook resident Lekunutu Matima remembers his childhood in South Africa and the Soweto Uprising 37 years ...

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 ...

SOWETO, South Africa — President Thabo Mbeki led hundreds of South Africans through the streets of this black township on Friday, retracing the steps of student protesters who galvanized the ...

For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brutally enforced a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid -- and just as ruthlessly crushed any opposition. By the 1970s, an ...

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