Who had shot Hector Pieterson and why?
Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubu after being shot by South African police. Pieterson’s sister, Antoinette Sithole runs beside them.
Class 6
Why is Hector Pieterson famous?
?Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima – of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student – was published around the world.
Why was the Hector Ndlovu shot?
On 16 June 1976, when the police from the Orlando Police Station led by Colonel Kleingeld opened fire on Soweto students protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans instruction in school, he was the first to be hit.
what do you mean by Hector Ndlovu?
Hastings Ndlovu was a schoolboy who was killed in the Soweto uprising against the apartheid system in South Africa.
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What happened to Hector and his classmates? Why did it happen?
Hector and his classmates, because they were non-whites luring in one black township named Soweto, were being forced to learn the language of whites i.e. Afrikaans. But they wanted to learn their own language, zulu and joined the protest against learning the Afrikaans language in school. The South African police beat up the protestors ruthlessly …
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