An uprising in South Africa and an exodus in the Caucasus

Podcast: The History Hour · BBC World Service

Opublikowano: 2026-06-19

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Rachel E. Johnson, Professor of Modern African History at Durham University in the UK. We begin with the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, which became a defining symbol of youth resistance to apartheid. We hear from one of the students who took part in the protest, which was violently suppressed by South African security forces in June 1976. Then we have the harrowing account of an ethnic Georgian poet who fled his home in Ab...