The Lagos state government has warned against a planned nationwide protest coinciding with the 2025 Democracy Day ...

The election was won by Moshood Abiola (of blessed memory), a popular entrepreneur.Activists eye June 12 for protestAs ...

In the Soweto area of Johannesburg, at least two people are dead and roughly 70 people have been arrested amid protests and looting. The looting started on Monday, after a store owner was accused ...

The 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in South Africa is on 16 June: the day school pupils took to the streets of a township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to protest against the standards of ...

This doesn’t make sense.” So Sithole and an estimated 20,000 other students from Soweto’s high schools decided, in secret, to hold a protest. For a young woman caught up in the heady ...

Forty years ago, the streets of the Soweto township in South Africa's economic capital Johannesburg turned bloody. Thousands of mostly black students lined the streets, refusing to go to school ...

But on June 16, 1976, students in Soweto township outside Johannesburg decided to hold a protest against a government policy mandating that all classes be taught in Afrikaans, the language of ...

A small group of EFF members picketed in Soweto on Monday. The group held placards demanding that President Cyril Ramaphosa leave office. Contrary to social media momentum leading up the nationwide ...

Photo: Screengrab Motorists have been urged to avoid the Noordgesig area in Soweto due to protest action. It is understood residents have blocked the roads in the area with rocks and burning tyres ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s high rate of unemployment has cast a pall over Youth Day, the holiday honoring the 45th anniversary of the Soweto student protests which played a key ...