1976 picture hector pietersen biography

Stones filled the air. Tear gas burst out. Bullets began to fly. And Pieterson's body lay lifeless on the ground. Mbuyisa Makhuboa high school graduate, picked up the boy and ran to the nearest clinic. It was too late - Pieterson was already dead before he got there.

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An image, taken by Sam Nzimashowed Pieterson's dead body carried by Makhubo with sister Sithole nearby. It became the iconic image of the Soweto Uprising, spreading around the world. Inthe Hector Pieterson Museum was created to commemorate the fight of Pieterson and other students against the apartheid in South Africa. It has a Pieterson memorial and has a garden of remembrance of with the names of all who were killed in the uprising, including Pieterson, written on bricks.

Contents move to sidebar hide. Hector was one of the first casualties of the uprising against the sole use of the Afrikaans language in schools. He was 12 at the time of his death. A postmortem revealed that Pieterson was killed by a shot fired directly at him and not by a bullet 'ricocheting off the ground' as police claimed. Another student, Hastings Ndlovuis believed to have been the first to be shot by police on that fateful day.

1976 picture hector pietersen biography: Hector Pieterson was 12

The iconic image has been on everything from billboards to T-shirts. Harassment from police forced Nzima to become a small bottle store owner in the small village Lilydale, in Bushbuckridge, in Mpumalanga. It took him 22 years of struggle to get his copyright back. We found the students busy writing placards opposing new Bantu education laws.

When the march reached Morris Isaacson High, a student leader Tsietsi Mashinini addressed students from the top of a tree saying the march was to be a peaceful, says Nzima. Shortly after, armed police arrived in armoured vehicles and instructed all to disperse. Nzima says the singing agitated a police commander who instructed his officers to open fire.

The students ran and Nzima hid in a house.

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There comes this tall boy Mbuyisa and picked him up. As Mbuyisa picked him up, I went with my camera. I was also shooting with my camera, under the shower of police bullets. Mbuyisa was running to the nearest car, the nearest press car was our Volkswagen Beetle. I managed to shoot six sequences of him carrying Hector. My colleague Sophie Tema opened the door and they put Hector inside.

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