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3 unusual facts about Hector Pieterson


Hector Pieterson

When Hector was shot, he fell on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets, he was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo (an 18-year-old schoolboy) who together with Hector's sister, Antoinette (then 17 years old), ran towards Sam Nzima's car.

Pieterson

Hector Pieterson (1964–1976), became the subject of an iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa

Sam Nzima

Sam Nzima (Born: 8 August 1934, Lillydale) is the South African photographer who took what became the iconic image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright.



see also

Pieterson

Hector Pieterson Museum, large museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, two blocks away from where Hector Pieterson was shot and killed