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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

World Refugee Day is commemorated to highlight the challenges faced by people displaced by conflict or persecution. It occurs ...

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 ...

Lekunutu “Kunu” Matima spoke at the weekly meeting of the Hudson Rotary Monday afternoon. He was a student leader in the Soweto Uprising movement that was violently dispelled by apartheid police ...