HECTOR PIETERSON MUSEUM
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Museum commemorating the Soweto students' revolt against the obligation to learn Afrikaans.
This museum commemorates the revolt of the students of Soweto against the obligation to learn Afrikaans, a peaceful demonstration that ended in bloodshed and marked the signal for a series of revolts in the townships. On 16 June 1976, 566 young demonstrators were shot dead by the police. The first victim was 12-year-old Hector Pieterson. The picture of this dead child and his desperate sister remains a well-known cliché of that bloody day and is erected as a symbol. How the people of Soweto lived under apartheid and how the struggle began in the township.
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