Soweto, South Africa, June 12, 2026 (AFP) - Fifty years on, Soweto uprising legacy still shadows South Africa

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2026-06-12

Half a century after an uprising that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa, little remains on the streets of Soweto to mark the blood spilled there. The scarlet paint once meant to evoke the slaughter of June 16, 1976 in the poor township outside Johannesburg has long disappeared from the pavements leading to the spot where police opened fire on protesting black schoolchildren, a turning point in the struggle against white-minority rule. A......

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