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An extensive mashup with info on the events on 16 June 1976; Youth and the National Liberation Struggle 1894–1994, South African History Online; The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising, South African History Online; The June 16 Soweto students' uprising – as it happened, South Africa Gateway; Helena Pohlandt-McCormick. "I Saw a Nightmare…"
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.
27 – The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah. May. 29 – Eskom announces that it will order two nuclear power stations from France. June. 16 – Student riots break out in Soweto and Hector Pieterson, Hastings Ndlovu and two white officials of the West Rand Board are some of the casualties. [2]
Hector Pieterson was shot by police during a protest by school children on 16 June 1976. Pictures of his body being carried through the streets of Soweto caused international outrage and school protests across South Africa.
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 ...
Edelstein was one of the two white men who died in the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976, when he was stoned to death by a crowd of enraged students. [6] [7]Edelstein had been hosting the official opening for a branch of his Sheltered Workshop Programme in Orlando East, designed to provide employment for disabled people, when news of the student protests reached the project.
1976 establishments in South Africa (3 C, 16 P) C. ... 1976 in South African television; ... This page was last edited on 18 June 2023, ...
June 1878 Eadweard Muybridge: Palo Alto, California, United States Composite from multiple glass plates Series of cabinet cards regarded as a precursor to motion pictures. Pictured left is the variant Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, which further captured a horse's motion. [s 2] [s 3] [s 4]