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An iconic photo from the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising shows Mbuyisa Makhubu, then 18, carrying a dying Hector Pieterson, who had been hit by police bullets fired at protesting schoolchildren.
It is the image that showed the world the horrors of apartheid. It captured the anguish of 16-year-old schoolboy Mbuyisa Makhubu as he carried 13-year-old Hector Pieterson's body after he was shot ...
Former president Nelson Mandela has been presented with a statuette of Hector Pieterson, whose death on June 16, 1976, was immortalised in an iconic photograph taken by Sam Nzima.
Hector Pieterson’s sister Antoinette Sithole arrives at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, 16 June 2025, to give a lecture on her brotherwho was shot dead by the apartheid police on 16 June 1976.
“Today, we stand here, 49 years since Hector Pieterson, Tsietsi Mashinini, and scores more bled and lost their lives for the liberation of this country and its young people. Their fight is far ...
The family of the late Hector Pieterson was part of the day alongside President of ActionSA, Herman Mashaba and many residents of Soweto. June 28, 2024 Ntwanano Mtileni 1 minute read ...
Rico Devara Chapman receives funding from the Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program. The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto honours school children who were murdered by apartheid police in June 1976 ...