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The Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial

hectorp-1The Hector Pieterson Museum, opened on 16 June, 2002
  • hectorp-1The Hector Pieterson Museum, opened on 16 June, 2002
  • hectorp-2The double volume entrance to the museum, with warm wood floors and red brick walls
  • hectorp-3A large photograph in the entrance, capturing the spirit of the learners
  • hectorp-4The police who squared up to the learners, R1 rifles at the ready
  • hectorp-5A large window in the museum, overlooking the Hector Pieterson Memorial
  • hectorp-6A photograph in the museum showing learners marching in protest over Afrikaans
  • hectorp-7Learners came marching down Vilakazi Street and met the police on the corner of Moema Street
  • hectorp-8A memorial wall marks the spot where learners and police clashed
  • hectorp-9The intersection where Hector Pieterson was shot and fell, with the museum in the background
  • hectorp-10Words on granite at the Hector Pieterson Memorial, acknowledging the sacrifice made by learners
  • hectorp-11The Hector Pieterson Memorial, remembering him and other young people who died on 16 June, 1976
  • hectorp-12Nombulelo Makhubo, the mother of Mbuyisa, the boy who picked up Hector and ran with him. She died in 2004
  • hectorp-13Sam Nzima, whose iconic photograph went around the world and led to international sanctions against South Africa
  • hectorp-14Sam Nzima explaining how he took the iconic photograph, at the opening of the Hector Pieterson Museum in 2002
  • hectorp-15Antoinette Sithole, Hector Pieterson's sister, guide at the museum built in her brother's name
  • hectorp-16Dorothy Molefi, Hector Pieterson's mother
  • hectorp-17Hector Pieterson's grave in Avalon Cemetery, Soweto
  • hectorp-18Tsietsi Mashinini's grave in Avalon Cemetery, Soweto
  • hectorp-19Nomkhitha Mashinini, mother of Tsietsi
  • hectorp-20Dee Mashinini, brother and fellow exile of Tsietsi