Museum
Hector Pieterson Memorial
8287 Khumalo Rd, Orlando West, Johannesburg, 1804
Memorial marking the spot where a schoolboy was shot dead during the nineteen seventy six student uprising.
This guide to the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto centers on June 16th, 1976, when twelve-year-old Hector Pieterson was shot during a student march against Afrikaans-language schooling, and a photograph of him being carried away became one of the defining images of apartheid. It traces how photographer Sam Nzima captured that image and hid the film from police before they could seize it. Best heard standing near the stone marking where Hector fell.
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