Beginning with Year of fire, year of ash - a record of the Soweto uprising - Hilson wrote a series of works on the history of the left and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Soweto | Warsaw Uprising | November Uprising | January Uprising | Soweto Kinch | Slovak National Uprising | Kościuszko Uprising | Tron: Uprising | TRON: Uprising | Slovak Uprising | Khmelnytsky Uprising | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Soweto uprising | Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising | Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising | First Serbian Uprising | Autumn Harvest Uprising | Allegheny Uprising | Wuchang Uprising | Uprising Records | Uprising of 1953 in East Germany | Soweto Uprising | Soweto String Quartet | Serbian Uprising | Second Serbian Uprising | Polish National Government (November Uprising) | June Uprising | Dos de Mayo Uprising | August Uprising | Warsaw Uprising Museum |
It follows them from the success of the film around the time of the Soweto Uprising, through to the election of Nelson Mandela.
On 27 April 2007 when President Thabo Mbeki was celebrating Freedom Day at Bhisho renewed riots reminiscent of those which occurred in Soweto on 16 June 1976 took place in the streets of Khutsong.
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.
His appointment came at a time of major political and social upheaval in that country, following the Soweto uprising and the murder of student activist Steve Biko.
Hector Pieterson (1964–1976), became the subject of an iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa