Extensive new research, including thorough reviews of medical records and police documents, drastically increases the number of dead and injured in the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa by at least ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South Africa’s president led a stirring national commemoration of the day 52 years ago when apartheid-era police gunned down 69 blacks protesting segregation in the township of ...

JOHANNESBURG - As the country marks Human Rights Day, survivors of the Sharpeville Massacre still live with the trauma. The apartheid government gunned down 69 peaceful protesters opposing the pass ...

On 21 March, South Africa observes Human Rights Day, commemorating the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre when apartheid-era police killed 69 peaceful protesters opposing pass laws. The tragedy remains a ...

Black-and-white pictures were projected onto the wall of a South African classroom and gospel music played evocatively in the background. The pictures told a chilling tale: Angry protesters. Policemen ...

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting ...