A soldier arrests a demonstrator in Soweto on June 16, 1976, during a students protest against having to use Afrikaans language at school.
By Clément VARANGES
Half a century after an uprising that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa, little remains on the streets of Soweto to mark the blood spilled there.
The scarlet paint once meant to evoke the slaughter of June 16, 1976, in the poor township outside Johannesburg has long disappeared from the pavements leading to the spot where police opened fire on protesting black schoolchildren, a turning point in the struggle against white-minority rule.
At least 176 people were killed, though some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds in the weeks that followed as the crackdown ignited a nationwide revolt.
