More than 500 people are killed over the next eight months, a quarter of them under age 18. Thirty years ago, the uprising of a group of schoolchildren changed South Africa forever. For decades, the ...

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

The 2025 African Bank Soweto Marathon, fondly known as the “People’s Race,” proved once again why Soweto is one of South Africa’s most iconic sporting and cultural destinations. The event drew an ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Benedict Somi Vilakazi had been surrounded by history. His grandfather was South Africa’s first black lecturer at Witswatersrand University and produced an English/Zulu dictionary, ...

For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brutally enforced a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid -- and just as ruthlessly crushed any opposition. By the 1970s, an ...