Original version

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Witness History

Podcasts

Factual: History

History as told by the people who were there

History as told by the people who were there.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service East Asia

Witness History: Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

Documentaries

Soweto uprising: The school children who marched against apartheid

23/04/2024 GMT

Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

BBC World Service - Witness History, Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

In 1976, an uprising was sparked when demonstrating children were gunned down

In 1976, demonstrating black schoolchildren were gunned down in South Africa. The result was the anti-apartheid Soweto uprising.

When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans in 1976, they were gunned down by the police.

The killings sparked a cycle of protests across the country against the racist apartheid regime.

In 2010, march organiser Bongi Mkhabela told Alan Johnston about her memories of the Soweto uprising.

(Photo: Protestors on the march. Credit: Bongani Mnguni/CityPress/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Witness History

Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

About BBC World Service