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Apartheid. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans ...
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti- Apartheid Soweto Uprising, where more than 170 protesting school children were ...
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.
Mbuyisa Makhubu (born 1957 or 1958) is a South African anti- Apartheid activist who disappeared in 1979. [2] He was seen carrying Hector Pieterson in a photograph taken by Sam Nzima after Pieterson was shot during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. [3] Despite the photograph's endurance, little is known about Makhubu. [4]
The core of the exhibition is the student uprising of 1976. This includes some of Peter Magubane 's work. 2002 – Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 – 1994 – The exhibition documented the period of upheavals that began with the student-led Soweto uprising of 1976 and culminated in the collapse of the apartheid regime and ...
His sister, Antoinette Sithole runs beside them. Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 in Lillydale, Bushbuckridge Local Municipality – 12 May 2018 in Nelspruit) [1] was a South African photographer who took what became the widely-circulated and influential image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright.
Edelstein was one of the two white men who died in the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976, when he was stoned to death by a crowd of enraged students. [6] [7]Edelstein had been hosting the official opening for a branch of his Sheltered Workshop Programme in Orlando East, designed to provide employment for disabled people, when news of the student protests reached the project.
Soweto Blues. " Soweto Blues " is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba. [1] The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction at school. The uprising was forcefully put down by the police ...