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Soweto uprising, 40 years on

Subry Govender, Durban, South AfricaJune 10, 2016

Four decades after the Soweto student uprising, we look back on the youth-led protests that became a defining moment in the struggle to end apartheid, the policy that segregated South Africa's black majority from its white minority. In the days that followed, the government cracked down on journalists covering the struggle. DW spoke with Subry Govender, who was one of those journalists.

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