Soweto '76 Fifty Years On
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SA owes generation of '76
In the play, Rise ’76, currently running at the Market Theatre in Joburg, the audience is reminded that one of the most prominent victims of the 16 June 1976 riots, Hector Pieterson, would have turned 62 years old this year. On the 50th anniversary of the riots, the country stands on the precipice yet again: the president’s tenure is in a precarious position and the police force leadership has been exposed to be in cahoots with serious organised…
Exactly 50 years ago, thousands of students took to the streets in the South African township of Soweto. The uprising marked a turning point in the struggle of the black majority against the racist apartheid system.
Black students in South Africa marched into the streets of Soweto on June 16, 1976. Under apartheid pressure, they were required to study difficult subjects in Afrikaans, a language many of them directly associated with oppressors and control. But the peaceful protest turned into a massacre.
The blood of Soweto: When children confronted apartheid’s guns
The historic rebellion of June 16, 1976, became a catalyst that ultimately dismantled racial segregationPublished 16 Jun, 2026 09:57 | Updated 16 Jun, 2026 11:00RT composite. © RT; Legion-Media / Andy MyattSouth African photojournalist Sam Nzima’s iconic black-and-white photograph of the lifeless body of Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhuba – with Pieterson’s distraught sister, Antoinette Sithole, running alongside – exposed the wo…
On 16 June 1976, the ghetto of Soweto, south of Johannesburg, rose up, and this murderous day, on which the South African weekly newspaper, Mail & Guardian, returns to its front page, marks a reversal that will culminate in the end of apartheid.
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