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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.
Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 in Lillydale, Bushbuckridge Local Municipality – 12 May 2018 in Nelspruit) [1] was a South African photographer who took what became the widely-circulated and influential image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright. [2]
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.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
The core of the exhibition is the student uprising of 1976. This includes some of Peter Magubane 's work. 2002 – Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 – 1994 – The exhibition documented the period of upheavals that began with the student-led Soweto uprising of 1976 and culminated in the collapse of the apartheid regime and ...
Klaaste suggested that one of the motivations for the closure of The World was that The Committee of Ten was formed in the newspaper's offices to help run Soweto after the 1976 protests. [8] Six of the newspapers' reporters disappeared in the late 1970s after being arrested by the police. [9]
16 June – Melville Edelstein, sociologist, killed due to Soweto uprising (b. 1919) 16 June – Hastings Ndlovu, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1961) 16 June – Hector Pieterson, Soweto uprising casualty (b. 1963) 9 September – Ivan Mitford-Barberton, sculptor, writer and herald (b. 1896)