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  The day Hector Pieterson died - SouthAfrica.info
Nzima's photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson being carried by a fellow student was published around the world, and came to represent the anger and tragedy of a day that changed the course of South African history, sparking months of clashes between police, schoolchildren and protesters.
Hector was her only son, and since the uprising she has lost one of my younger sisters in a car accident.
Hector Pieterson is buried at Avalon Cemetery, the large cemetery that serves the Soweto community.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/history/hector-pieterson.htm   (2474 words)

  
 Hector Pieterson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hector Pieterson (1964 16 June 1976) became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto riots in apartheid South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Nzima of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world.
Hector Pieterson, along with Hastings Ndlovu, is buried at Avalon Cemetery, Soweto.
Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Dorothy Molefi, Hector's mother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hector_Pieterson   (607 words)

  
 :: HECTOR: THE FAMOUS CHILD WHOSE FACE IS UNKNOWN ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hector's sister, Antoinette Sithole, and Sam Nzima, the photographer who took the legendary picture of Hector being carried to a car to be taken to a nearby clinic, is also still alive.
Hector, 12, was one of the first casualties of the Soweto uprising of 16 June, 1976, when over 500 people were killed as they protested over the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools.
Hector was taken to a nearby clinic and pronounced dead on arrival.
www.joburg.org.za /june_2002/hector.stm   (1763 words)

  
 :: HECTOR PIETERSON GETS HIS MEMORIAL ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
THE Hector Pieterson Museum opens on Youth Day, 16 June, but don't expect to come away with an image of what Hector looked like - the family do not have a single snapshot of their famous son.
He was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo, who, together with Hector's sister, Antoinette, ran towards a press car, where he was bundled in, and taken to a nearby clinic, where he was pronounced dead.
Now those events are to be recalled at the new Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West, Soweto, built in memory of the people who died that day, from a total of 566 people who died in unrest around the country in 1976.
www.joburg.org.za /october/hector.stm   (1420 words)

  
 AEGiS-ST: Aids campaign blasted
Pieterson, a 12-year-old pupil, was one of the first casualties of the Soweto uprising of June 16 1976.
The photograph of Pieterson being rushed to a Soweto clinic was taken by photographer Sam Nzima.
But Pieterson's sister, Antoinette Pieterson, who heads the Hector Pieterson Foundation, said that although she was nervous about public reaction, the image could have an enormous impact on the struggle to educate the youth about Aids.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/2006/ST060604.html   (636 words)

  
 WCPRC - Hector Pieterson, South Africa
Hector Pieterson is 12 and the place is Soweto, South Africa.
Today, Antoinette works at the memorial of Hector and all of the other children who were killed during the time of apartheid (the separation of races) in South Africa.
Hector’s nephew Lerato used to be on the International Children’s Jury.
www.childrensworld.org /page.html?pid=343   (292 words)

  
 Soweto tours - The Hector Pieterson Memorial - part of the struggle tour
Despite the peaceful nature of the march, the confrontation turned violent and was here that a number of students, including Hector Pieterson, were shot and killed.
The photograph by Sam Nzima of a young man, Mbuyiswa, carrying the critically injured Hector Pieterson in his arms, captured the attention of people throughout the world and highlighted the injustices of apartheid.
A memorial to hector Pieterson was erected in the early 1990s and is situated in Khumalo Street, a few hundred meters from where he was shot.
www.soweto.co.za /html/p_hector.htm   (587 words)

  
 Lords Travel
The Hector Pieterson memorial and museum has been established to preserve the history and memory of all those who were involved in the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976.
The museum is named after 13 year old Hector Pieterson, who was among the first student victims to die from police shootings.
The memorial to Hector Pieterson is situated a few hundred meters from where he was shot.
www.lordstravel.co.za /soweto6.htm   (213 words)

  
 *Hip Hop Republican*: Hector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson (1964 – June 16, 1976) became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto riots in apartheid South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Nzima of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world.
Since June 1976, Hector's surname has been spelt Petersen by the press but the family insists that the correct spelling is Pieterson.
The Pieterson family was originally the Pitso family but decided to adopt the Pieterson name to try to pass as "coloured", a minority apartheid grouping who had slightly better privileges, like marginally higher wages.
hiphoprepublican.com /2006/06/hector-pieterson.html   (755 words)

  
 WCPRC - Nkosi and Hector fought
The original photo was taken when Hector Pieterson was shot in 1976.
Hector was posthumously (after his death) awarded the Children's World's Commemorative Prize at the first award ceremony for The World’s Children’s Prize 2000.
When South Africa was still a racist country he fought for the right of fl children to get a good education and because of that he was shot.
www.childrensworld.org /page.html?pid=565   (361 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | features The shot that shocked the world
When the shutter clicked to capture Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying dying schoolboy Hector Pieterson in his arms, photojournalist Sam Nzima could not have known that his picture would become one of the most famous press photographs ever, and an international rallying-cry for the anti-apartheid struggle.
Among the first victims to fall on June 16, 1976 was Hector Pieterson, immortalised by the shot of his limp body being carried away from the killing field that was Orlando West.
Flanked by president Thabo Mbeki, marchers will walk from the intersection to the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, where the president will lay a wreath at the marble memorial tablet bearing the names of the fallen students, before continuing on the the FNB Stadium.
iafrica.com /news/features/545381.htm   (910 words)

  
 Wearing Hector Pieterson - SouthAfrica.info
He then decided on Hector Pieterson and approached Antoinette Sithole, Hector's sister, who was working at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West.
She will earn royalties that will be used to build the Hector Pieterson Orphanage.
The Hector Pieterson brand was launched at SA Fashion Week at the end of July.
www.southafrica.info /what_happening/arts_entertainment/hector-pieterson-label-290705.htm   (526 words)

  
 Communications | Morehouse College
The memorial and museum were constructed to preserve the history of all the individuals who were involved in the tragic events of the Soweto uprising.
Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old student, was among the first victims to be killed by police that fateful day, hence, the naming of the museum in his honor.
The engraving on the memorial near the sight where Hector was shot reads: "To honor the youth who gave their lives in the struggle for freedom and democracy: in memory of Hector Pieterson and all other heroes and heroines of our struggle who laid their lives for freedom, peace, and democracy."
www.morehouse.edu /communications/osalp/student_diaries/collier28.php   (494 words)

  
 Third Wave 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During Third Wave, participants will have an opportunity to visit SOWETO and the Hector Pieterson Museum.
Hector Pieterson, age 13, was one the first students to be killed during the 1976 Student Uprising in Soweto.
To learn more about the Hector Pieterson Museum, please Click Here.
www.nyitoday.org /thirdwave/Tourism.php   (100 words)

  
 Youth Day, 3 Decades of Struggle.
Today is Youth day… a public holiday in South Africa and even more significant today as it is the 30 year anniversary in which Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old student, had died on June 16, 1976 following the Soweto protest of schools imposing Afrikaans as the official teaching language.
Hector became famous because the image at right, in which he’s being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world following the riots.
Many say that this was the day in which the road to our freedom was born, since the Apartheid government had for one day forced its will and its ideology onto the world… and the world violently resisted.
www.gnn.tv /threads/16761/Youth_Day_3_Decades_of_Struggle   (752 words)

  
 Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum | Museum/Attraction Review | Johannesburg | Frommers.com
Hector Pieterson Sq., corner of Khumalo and Pela sts., Orlano West, Soweto
Erected in memory of the 1976 student protest, when police opened fire on hundreds of Sowetan schoolchildren who were peacefully demonstrating against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in their schools.
Hector's sister runs alongside, her mouth a silent wail of grief.
www.frommers.com /destinations/johannesburg/A33147.html   (267 words)

  
 cbs2chicago.com - Obama Pays Homage To South Africans' Freedom Fight
With hand shakes, hugs and his congenial grin, Obama toured Soweto, the township where white rulers tried to confine by night the fls who worked in their homes, offices and mines by day.
At the Hector Pieterson Museum, built on the site where peaceful child protesters were gunned down by police 30 years ago in an attack that awakened the world to the brutality of the apartheid regime, Obama said he became involved in politics to fight for divestment of U.S. interests in South Africa.
Jim Lockerbie presented a museum pamphlet for a signature, saying he had taught world history for 33 years at Newport High School in Seattle and was delighted by the changes since he last visited South Africa in 1971.
cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_235110416.html   (821 words)

  
 Soweto museum opens 26 years after killings -DAWN - International; June 17, 2002
The Hector Pieterson museum, a soberly stylish building of red brick and glass, records the revolt by school students against plans to teach them in Afrikaans, the main language of the white minority government.
South African historians are revising the official version of their country’s tortured past, specifically for the 1948-94 period when the apartheid system of racial segregation treated non-whites as inferior beings.
TRIBUTE TO “YOUNG LIONS”: The Hector Pieterson museum cost about 25 million rand ($2.40 million) to build and to fill with contemporary photographs, texts and documentary video.
www.dawn.com /2002/06/17/int5.htm   (317 words)

  
 Hector Homes, Minnesota, Houses and Condos for Sale in Hector - MN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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www.homepurchase101.com /cities/Hector-MN.aspx   (259 words)

  
 Travel Topics: Visit Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As the 30th anniversary of 16 June, 1976 approaches, you should visit the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West before the actual day.
Take a trip down south to Soweto and take in the exhibits - photographs, video footage, artefacts, oral testimonies - and come to understand what happened on 16 June, 1976.
The building is positioned several blocks from where Hector was shot, and from the museum's windows you'll see various Soweto landmarks and significant homes.
www.backinafrica.com /forum/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=6   (145 words)

  
 Africa: A pilgrimage of reconciliation and hope
The Hector Pieterson Museum, commemorating the first Black youth to die in the student uprising of 1976, offered us a chance to examine the atrocities of Apartheid.
Several in our group walked hand in hand with young children along the red dirt streets as residents welcomed us into their homes.
Our experiences in Soweto and at the Hector Pieterson Museum have roused a profound opportunity for critical thought and conversation as we explore the dynamics of our position in the international community.
www.globalministries.org /africa/day2.htm   (267 words)

  
 The Camera Irises Down
They remained divided in their two teams - men in Amabhubesi and women in Imbokodo - and the task they were given was about tourism.
Amabhubesi chose Mohammed as their leader, Imbokodo chose Iris, each team spent the day trying to do something of value and by the end of the day only Amabhubesi had a plan.
The trip to the Hector Pieterson museum was everything I'm sure you felt too and it was filmed so superbly.
www.tashitagg.com /apprentice/tashi/eps02.asp   (1540 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - South Africans mark 1976 Soweto Uprising   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
for a moment of silence to remember Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old killed by police who shot at the unarmed demonstrators.
His death has come to symbolize the sacrifices of young people in the fight for South Africa's democracy and freedom.
Friday's six-mile march ended at a memorial to Pieterson, where Mbeki, and representatives of government, the youth and the families of those who were slain lay wreaths of colorful flowers.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-06-16-soweto_x.htm   (922 words)

  
 United States Diplomatic Mission to South Africa. News, August 24, 2006: Senator Barack Obama visits South Africa
Senator Barack Obama visited Hector Pieterson Museum and Rosa Parks Library in Soweto on August 23 as part of his visit to Johannesburg.
Hector Pieterson's sister, Antoinette Sithole, led the Senator on the tour, during which the Senator remarked that the Soweto uprisings inspired him to get involved in politics.
At the end of the tour, Senator Obama laid a wreath at the museum's memorial.
pretoria.usembassy.gov /wwwhnews060824.html   (295 words)

  
 Fade to Black: Tears for Soweto
Today we went on a more or less organized tour of Johannesburg and Soweto.
We visited the site of the infamous riots where the first student, Hector Pieterson, was killed by South African police.
We visited the museum named in his honor that chronicles the events of that tragic riot where South African police opened fire on hundreds of schoolchildren.
www.travelblog.org /Print/Blog/28526/112464.html   (657 words)

  
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U.S. Senator, Barack Obama, left, visits a memorial with Antoinette Sitole, the sister of the late Hector Pieterson, at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006.
The museum commemorates the site where Pieterson was gunned down by police thirty years ago at the start of the Soweto student uprising.
www.abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2351455   (503 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
Youth Day walk ends at Hector Pieterson memorial
Pupils run from clouds of smoke and teargas on June 16 1976
President Thabo Mbeki has concluded his Youth Day walk through the streets of Soweto by laying a wreath at the Hector Pieterson memorial.
www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,129474,00.html   (189 words)

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