The 1976 uprising was sparked by the imposition of Afrikaans ... a liberal who had just published a report warning of impending unrest in Soweto. Despite the police’s heavy-handed methods, riots ...

Infamous incidents, such as the shootings which resulted in the death of school children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976 and the brutal police assaults that led to the death of Steve Biko due ...

Show more In 1976, the Johannesburg township of Soweto erupted into protest ... The protests were met with brutal force by the police, and hundreds of students died in the ensuing gunfire.

It is where the police killed at least 176 protesting schoolchildren during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, and where residents refused to pay the white government for rent, electricity and water ...