It was this camera that captured the image of a limp and bleeding Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo, running, his face twisted in grief. Hector’s sister, Antoinette, was running ...

Peterson became the face of the 1976 Soweto uprising when ... Later, in 2002, the Hector Pieterson Museum opened behind the memorial site.

He once walked into the Hector Pieterson Museum with journalists, posed in front of the famous image and blocked Mbuyisa’s face, demanding that it be erased, writes Ali Hlongwane in his PhD ...

Mandela was shocked to hear of the appalling killing of 13-year-old Hector Pieterson, Dorothy Molefi’s only son. The forgiveness and dignity shown by this amazing woman in the face of shocking ...

The exhibit inside the Hector Pieterson Museum depicts life in South ... In America, it was the brutalized face of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American who was murdered in Mississippi ...

For the past 20 years, her crusade against the Hector Pieterson Museum – which she wants closed down – has taken her to the office of the president in Pretoria, the public protector and Winnie ...

The iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson from the 16 June 1976 Soweto ... featuring Field Marshal Kitchener’s stern face, wearing his military cap, and famous drooping moustache, insisting ...

Children from Soweto stand at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, South Africa, June 16, 2013. The image of Pieterson became emblematic of the violence in which hundreds of students were killed.

Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, protesting ...

Upon arrival at the Hector Pieterson Memorial, learners held a remembrance service where Kamohelo Mkhaliphi, a Grade 8 learner shared a poem titled Freedom is here. Botlhale G. Matloga ...

It was this camera that captured the image of a limp and bleeding Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo, running, his face twisted in grief. Hector’s sister, Antoinette, was running ...