443pp., paperback, Jacana, Johannesburg, 2026

ISBN: 9781431437009

Julian Brown's comprehensive history of 16 June 1976 and the events that preceded and followed it interweaves eye-witness testimonies, court records, police affidavits, old newspaper reports, interviews and other published sources about the uprisings, allowing those involved to tell their story in their own words and enabling readers to interpret a moment that changed South Africa from the records of the time itself.

Julian Brown teaches in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwaterstrand. He is the author of South Africa’s Insurgent Citizens (2015), The Road to Soweto( 2016) and most recently, Marikana: A People’s History (2022).

SOWETO UPRISING, a documentary history

: Brown (J.)

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