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A new picture of Youth Day – 16 June

This is the iconic picture which caught the world’s attention – the one that reminds us of the 1976 Soweto uprising. 35 years ago, photographer Sam Nzima snapped a thirteen-year old boy named Hector Pieterson, who was one the first students to be killed by a policeman’s bullet in Soweto on 16 June 1976. Alongside [...]

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