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 ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — 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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Benedict Somi Vilakazi ...