The iconic image of 12-year-old Hector Pieterson’s final moments after being shot by police is a stark reminder of our past and the deeply entrenched systemic degradation of South Africa’s ...

Hector Pieterson’s sister, Lulu Pieterson, has joined the Democratic Alliance. “Lulu joins the DA at a historic time in our nation’s struggle for a better life,” DA spokesperson Mmusi Maimane said ...

Upon arrival at the Hector Pieterson Memorial, learners held a remembrance service where Kamohelo Mkhaliphi, a Grade 8 learner shared a poem titled Freedom is here. Botlhale G. Matloga ...

“We still have a long way to go,” she said. “And I’m sure Hector Pieterson and everyone else who died during the uprising are turning in their graves looking at the so-called progress we ...

Today, Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversary of the country’s first all-race elections, President Jacob Zuma will bestow national honours on Sam Nzima for a photograph showing a ...

A journalism student Simon Sonnekus penned a letter that was published in the Mercury on 15.6.2015 addressed to Hector Pieterson. If Hector Peterson could reply to Simon Sonnekus "A letter to Hector ...

At least 176 Black students, many of them children, including Hector Pieterson, lost their lives on 16 June 1976. Photo: Sam Nzima ON June 16 each year, Youth Day is celebrated nationally in South ...

News photographer Sam Nzima’s historic picture of a dying Hector Pieterson (13) being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo after being shot in the June 16 1976 Soweto uprising was dramatised at the Youth Day ...

Summerhill College had a special Human Right’s Assembly. It was our honour to have Antoinette Sithole, Hector Pieterson’s sister, as the guest speaker. It was a privilege for the staff ...

The arts and culture department is verifying information regarding the DNA tests of Mbuyisa Makhubo, who famously carries a dying Hector Pieterson in a photograph of the Soweto uprising. “[The ...