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Hastings Ndlovu (2 February 1961 – 16 June 1976) was a schoolboy who was killed in the Soweto uprising against the apartheid system in South Africa. Death.
Avalon Cemetery Famous graves of members of the African National Congress during the apartheid-era Details Location Soweto, Johannesburg Country South Africa Coordinates 26°17′47″S 27°51′44″E / 26.29639°S 27.86222°E / -26.29639; 27.86222 Avalon Cemetery is one of the largest graveyards in South Africa. It was opened in 1972, during the height of apartheid, as a ...
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.
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Among the first students to be shot dead were the 15-year-old Hastings Ndlovu and the 12-year-old Hector Pieterson, who were shot at Orlando West High School. [22] The photographer Sam Nzima took a photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson as he was carried away by Mbuyisa Makhubo and accompanied by his sister, Antoinette Peterson, which became ...