20 years after the uprising , in June 1996 , the Ulwazi Educational Radio Project of Johannesburg compiled an hour-long radio documentary portraying the events of 16 June entirely from the perspective of people living in Soweto at the time . Many of the students who planned or joined the uprising took part , as did other witnesses , including photographer Peter Magubane , reporter Sophie Tema , and Tim Wilson , the white doctor who pronounced Hector Pieterson dead in Baragwanath hospital . The programme was broadcast on SABC and on a number of local radio stations throughout South Africa . The following year , BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service broadcast a revised version containing fresh interviews and entitled '' The Day Apartheid Died '' . The programme was runner-up at the 1998 European Community Humanitarian Office ( ECHO ) TV & Radio Awards and also at the 1998 Media Awards of the One World International Broadcasting Trust , and was highly commended at the 1998 Prix Italia radio awards . In May 1999 , it was re-broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as '' The Death of Apartheid '' with a fresh introduction , providing added historical context for a British audience , by Anthony Sampson , former editor of '' Drum '' magazine and author of the authorised biography ( 1999 ) of Nelson Mandela . Sampson linked extracts from the BBC Sound Archive that charted the long struggle against apartheid from the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 , through the riots of 1976 and the murder of Steve Biko , and right up to Mandela 's release from prison in 1990 and the future president 's speech in which he acknowledged the debt owed by all black South Africans to the students who gave their lives in Soweto on 16 June 1976
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
Soweto uprising