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Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
Johannesburg was established in 1886, [18] following the discovery of gold, on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold deposits found along the Witwatersrand, [19] within ten years, the population had grown to over 100,000 inhabitants.
In the theory officially accepted today by the city, it bears the name of Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz. In another theory, the city was originally named after Retief alone, initially "Pieter Mouriets Burg" (after his given names) and transformed to its current form. Pinetown – Sir Benjamin Pine, governor of Natal
After 65 years, “America’s Unknown Child” was finally given his name again: ... an infant boy found in 1983 and three men and three women found between 1972 and 1984.
They found that Johannesburg had 26 303 inhabitants. There were 13 820 buildings, of which 772 were shops and stores and 261 hotels and bars. The following suburbs were recorded: Booysens, Fordsburg, Langlaagte, Braamfontein, Auckland Park, Marshall's Town, Ferreira's Town, Prospect and Jeppe's Town.
In December 2022, nearly 66 years after his discovery, Philadelphia police announced they had finally identified the boy in the box: His name was Joseph Augustus Zarelli, and he was 4 at the time ...
A California boy who was lured away by a bandana-wearing woman while he played in a park in 1951 was found alive more than 70 years later — and is now a grandfather living on the east coast ...
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) [1] was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide four months after at the age of 33.