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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 and massacre 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.
The photograph of Hector Pieterson's dead body, as captured by the photojournalist Sam Nzima, caused outrage and brought down international condemnation on the apartheid government. The Soweto riots were depicted in the 1987 film by the director Richard Attenborough , Cry Freedom and in the 1992 musical film Sarafina! and the musical production ...
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 killed.
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. [2]
Makhubu carrying Hector Pieterson who had been shot by South African police (1976). [1] Mbuyisa Makhubu (born 1957 or 1958) is a South African anti-Apartheid activist who disappeared in 1979. [2] He rose to prominence after he was seen carrying Hector Pieterson in a photograph taken by Sam Nzima after Pieterson was shot during the Soweto ...
Nzima struggled for over 20 years before he was granted copyright for his photograph of young Pieterson. He runs a photography school in Bushbuck Ridge. [10] On 24 February 1976, The World reported that the defeat by Cuban and Angolan troops of South African defence force units operating in Angola had brought home the possibility of total ...
The Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum was established in Orlando West to commemorate those events. [2] In the surroundings of the museum is the house where Nelson Mandela lived for several years while practicing law ; the house now hosts the Mandela Family Museum .
Hector Pieterson was shot by police during a protest by school children on 16 June 1976. Pictures of his body being carried through the streets of Soweto caused international outrage and school protests across South Africa.