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 ...

The iconic South African stage production ‘Sophiatown’ returns to the stage at Soweto Theatre in a powerful revival directed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Short for South-Western Townships, Soweto is a bustling neighborhood located in Guateng, South Africa. The area is known for many ...

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

Timed around Human Rights Day and the anniversaries of Sharpeville and the Soweto Uprising, the article reflects on the meaning of human rights in contemporary South Africa — not only as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Soweto June 16 Uprising 50th anniversary celebrations have received a major boost from the City of Johannesburg, with the launch of the Soweto Unity Concert, set for Orlando Amstel Arena on June ...

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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 ...