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Hastings Ndlovu (2 February 1961 – 16 June 1976) was a schoolboy who was killed in the Soweto uprising against the apartheid system in South Africa. Death.
Avalon Cemetery Famous graves of members of the African National Congress during the apartheid-era Details Location Soweto, Johannesburg Country South Africa Coordinates 26°17′47″S 27°51′44″E / 26.29639°S 27.86222°E / -26.29639; 27.86222 Avalon Cemetery is one of the largest graveyards in South Africa. It was opened in 1972, during the height of apartheid, as a ...
Among the first students to be shot dead were the 15-year-old Hastings Ndlovu and the 12-year-old Hector Pieterson, who were shot at Orlando West High School. [22] 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 ...
Ndlovu (/ ˈ n d l oʊ v uː /, lit. ' elephant ' ) is a surname, common in South Africa and Zimbabwe, originating from the Nguni languages and prevalent among the Ndebele and Zulu people . Notable people with the surname include:
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] 23 – Prime Minister John Vorster and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hold talks in West Germany over the Rhodesian issue. August
2 February – Hastings Ndlovu, schoolboy who was shot and killed in Soweto uprising (d. 1976) 4 March – Roger Wessels, golfer. 10 April – Tian Viljoen, tennis player. 16 April – Schalk van der Merwe, tennis player. (d. 2016) 1 May – Christo Steyn, tennis player. 23 June – Ivan Wingreen, cricketer. (d. 2014).
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.
Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January 1957 – 1990) born in Jabavu, Soweto, South Africa, died in the summer of 1990 in Conakry, Guinea, and buried in Avalon Cemetery, was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and spread across South Africa in June, 1976.