Thursday, June 17, 2010

Remembering Soweto: Antoinette Sithole recounts the shooting of her brother, Hector Pieterson, during the Soweto Revolution.







Antionette Sithole











"Antoinette Sithole, an educational speaker and curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, South Africa, focused her presentation on the events of June 16, 1976, the day of the youth uprising in Soweto. Her brother, Hector Pieterson, who was killed that day, which Sithole witnessed. Hector was, at age 12, one of the first and youngest children to be killed by the apartheid regime."





photo: winston salem state university
tags: soweto, South Africa, apartheid

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