South African youths perform during the Youth Day gathering at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, June 16, 2011. The gathering was held here on Thursday marking the 35th anniversary of a watershed uprising by students in Soweto, near Johannesburg. The 1976 upheaval, in which more than 700 young people died, became a landmark event in the struggle against South Africa's former apartheid rulers. [Xinhua/Li Qihua]