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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.
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The photographer Sam Nzima took a photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson as he was carried away by Mbuyisa Makhubo and accompanied by his sister, Antoinette Peterson, which became the symbol of the Soweto uprising. The police attacks on the demonstrators continued, and 23 people died on the first day in Soweto.
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Two teen brothers died in a car accident this week, just days before one was set to graduate at Morningside High School. David and Hector Ceja, 17 and 15, died after the car they were in collided ...
The newspaper was the first in South Africa to place news rather than advertisements on the front page. [3] A women's page was introduced in October 1932. The paper ran a beauty competition from November 1932 to March 1933, for which readers could vote. [1] A favourite debate in the paper during the 1930s was what constituted the "African ...
Hector Ramon Martinez-Ayala, 54, allegedly sent the text message to his sibling around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, the day before police discovered the body of his daughter, 25-year-old ...