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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg turned bloody. Thousands of mostly black students lined the streets, refusing to go to school until ...

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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Eddie Conway: Welcome to The Real News. I’m Eddie Conway coming to you from Baltimore. Forty-one years ago, in 1976 on June the 16th, somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand high school students decided ...

A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass collective rejection of apartheid South Africa by thousands of working class black youths. Submitted by Ed on September ...

The Beating Heart of South Africa’s Bustling City Life Explore Soweto: A Township Transformed Into a Cultural Powerhouse ...

The Ubuntu Concert will take place this May, honouring the art that significantly contributed to the freedom the country enjoys today. You can’t talk about South African history without acknowledging ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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