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The World, originally named The Bantu World, was the black daily newspaper of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is famous for publishing Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, taken during the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976.
Baines, Gary. "The Master Narrative of South Africa's Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting 16 June 1976, International Journal of African Historical Studies (2007) 40#2 pp. 283–302 in JSTOR; Brewer, John D. After Soweto: an unfinished journey (Oxford University Press, 1986) Hirson, Baruch. "Year of Fire, Year of Ash.
The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.
7 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa. 7 – A car bomb explodes not far from The Star's Seaside Home in Durban, a holiday home for underprivileged children. 24 – The home of Soweto Housing Director, Del Kevin, is extensively damaged by a limpet mine. 30 – A Northern Natal policeman is injured in ...
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Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January 1957 – 1990) born in Jabavu, Soweto, South Africa, died in the summer of 1990 in Conakry, Guinea, and buried in Avalon Cemetery, was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June, 1976.
The Soweto Civic Association was an organisation formed in Soweto, South Africa, in 1979, formed out of what was known as the "Committee of Ten", by black professionals who wished to administer the city's affairs by themselves and not by an Apartheid representative local administration board officials and councillors.
8 August – Sam Nzima, photographer who took what became the well known image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising (d. 2018) 3 October – Harold Henning, golfer. (d. 2004) 8 October – Kader Asmal, activist, politician and professor of human rights (d. 2011) 9 October – Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist and composer