The first item on Newsround today was about a link-up between Phefeni Secondary School in Soweto, South Africa and Hesketh Fletcher CofE High School in Wigan, UK.

In two days' time on 16 June it will be the thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising against the evil apartheid regime. A lot of poverty still exists in Soweto but now the people are free to live life as they choose, without being oppressed.

All discrimination is now outlawed in South Africa's constitution, and it will be one of the first countries to allow gay people to marry - not that anything to do with gay equality would be mentioned on Newsround.