According to whyjoburg.com, "The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto was erected in the early 1990's as a memorial to Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old child, who is believed to have been the second school pupil shot by police during the Soweto Student Uprising on 16th June, 1976 - but the first fatality."
The uprising started as a protest of the requirement that Afrikaans, rather than the majority Bantu language, be the only language of instruction. Before it was over, as many as 700 students had been shot and killed by the police. The Memorial and Museum are relatively simple, but instructive and moving.
The uprising started as a protest of the requirement that Afrikaans, rather than the majority Bantu language, be the only language of instruction. Before it was over, as many as 700 students had been shot and killed by the police. The Memorial and Museum are relatively simple, but instructive and moving.
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