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The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
On 16 June 1976, the Soweto uprising began as police confronted protesting students. [3]: 20 Nzima took the photograph of fatally wounded Hector Pieterson (12) on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets in Orlando West, Soweto, near Phefeni High School.
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa.Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed.
Qoboza had first joined the paper as a journalist in 1963, rising to news editor in 1967. He was arrested without being charged in June 1976 for 18 hours, for condemning the violent state reaction to the protests. The same happened again in March 1978, as part of the government's repression of 18 black organizations.
2001 – Soweto – A South African Myth. hotographs from the 1950s (by Alf Khumalo, Ernest Cole and Jürgen Schadeberg). The core of the exhibition is the student uprising of 1976. This includes some of Magubane's work. [citation needed] 2012–2013 – Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life [14]
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June 16, 1976 (Wednesday) [ edit ] The Soweto uprising , a protest by black African schoolchildren and adults against a regulation requiring the teaching of classes in the Afrikaans language and barring the use of the Zulu language , began in the black African slum district near Johannesburg known as the South West Township in South Africa ...