June 14, 2006, 12:26 PM EDT / Source: Reuters All David Kutumela could think about when South African police gunned down his school mates 30 years ago was how to get his hands on an AK-47. “We grabbed ...

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 ...

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.

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 anti-apartheid struggle 30 years ...

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 ...

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 Africa’s high rate of unemployment has cast a pall over Youth Day, the holiday honoring the 45th anniversary of the Soweto student protests which played a key role in ending ...

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 ...

SOWETO, South Africa — The gleaming shopping mall has everything you could ask for: brand-name outlets such as Timberland and Puma, a garishly colored food court and a courtyard with one of those ...