See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's ...

Her dogged persistence to rewrite the narrative of her brother's history and to get royalties from all of those who use his name to generate money has caused a rift with her family and made her many ...

This experience was an educational one for the learners to recognise and learn about the changes the heroines have made for a better democracy Unity@One, a community-based NPO founded in 2023, is ...

June 16 is a national holiday in South Africa, but not because of the World Cup play being held there. The day marks the death of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson, killed by police in 1976 during student ...

She wasn’t really political, she says, but she was involved in the shattering political events of 1976 — and the famous photograph of a youth shot dead by police flashed her face around the world.

Sam Nzima, the photographer who captured the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto Uprising passed awayon May 12, 2018. The photograph was one of six frames showing Mbuyisa Makhubu carrying 12-year-old ...

Wright tells the true story behind the famed photograph taken of Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old who was shot by police during a 1976 protest against apartheid in South Africa. Prior to the erupting ...

Wayne Mona (21) has been trending on social media for simply being a trustworthy friend. He was filmed effortlessly carrying his friend on his shoulder while navigating a muddy path after attending ...

Antoinette Sithole, sister of Hector Pieterson addressing the Youth Parliament sitting at the Johannesburg City Hall. Antoinette Sithole, the sister of slain anti-apartheid student activist Hector ...

Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, protesting an ...