The Hector Pieterson Memorial and museum opened in Soweto in 2002, not far from the spot where 12 year-old Hector was shot on the 16 June 1976 during the Soweto uprising. Hector Pieterson has become something of an iconic image of the fateful day, mostly due to a photograph published across the globe, of the dying Hector carried by a fellow student. Renting a vehicle from car rental South Africa allows you to take a drive through this city, developed as a township for black people during apartheid, south of Johannesburg, and see this amazing Memorial site.
October 29, 2009
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