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) - 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 ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The day was a key moment in the long campaign to end South Africa’s ...

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 ...

Short for South-Western Townships, Soweto is a bustling neighborhood located in Guateng, South Africa. The area is known for many things, including its longstanding battle against apartheid. But even ...

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 ...

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.

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 -- The tour van pulls up, and the guide sweeps his hand toward a view of squatter camps crowded with rusted tin shacks and open-air markets where folk remedies for AIDS are sold ...