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 ...

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 ...

Let me detour for a moment from the collective amnesia of many South Africans who believe stoically that the Soweto Secondary and High School students on that fateful 16 Wednesday June 1976 day when ...