Hector Pieterson

This is in front of the museum's entrance. The picture is one of a young man carrying Hector's body to a nearby clinic, not knowing that he was already dead.

Fade to Black: Tears for Soweto

December 21st 2006
Today we went on a more or less organized tour of Johannesburg and Soweto. This blog will focus only on Soweto. As you leave Johannesburg, you see fewer and fewer Whites; and then finally, when you arrive to Soweto, we did not see a single White person. As many of you recall, the site of the major youth riots protesting the instruction of Afrikaans language in Black schools was in Soweto. We visit ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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