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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.
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.
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 ...
The South African Students' Movement (SASM) was an anti-apartheid political organisation of South African school students, best known for its role in the 1976 Soweto uprising. [1] [2] [3] By 1976 it was strongly identified with the Black Consciousness Movement. [3] It was banned by the apartheid government in October 1977 as part of the ...
One of the leaders of the 1976 Soweto uprising, he later represented the African National Congress in Parliament from 1994 to 2014. Born in Alexandra, Montsitsi entered student politics during apartheid through the South African Students Movement in Soweto. He was the president of the Soweto Students' Representative Council from January 1977 ...
16 June – Melville Edelstein, sociologist, killed due to Soweto uprising (b. 1919) 16 June – Hastings Ndlovu, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1961) 16 June – Hector Pieterson, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1963) 9 September – Ivan Mitford-Barberton, sculptor, writer and herald (b. 1896)
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" 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, leading to the ...