The famous photo
It shook the world.
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A museum and memorial in Soweto two blocks from where the twelve-year-old schoolboy Hector Pieterson was killed on 16 June 1976, when police opened fire on a march by schoolchildren, in what became known as the Soweto uprising. Thousands of students marched that day against the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction, and police met them with bullets; more than 170 children were killed in the unrest. The date is now a national holiday in South Africa, Youth Day. The museum's best-known exhibit is the photograph by Sam Nzima of a fellow student carrying Hector's body with his sister running beside them, the image that shook the world. The museum shows films, newspapers and testimonies, and traces the march day by day. The museum opened on 16 June 2002, charges a small fee, and is a short walk from Mandela House on Vilakazi Street, so the two are visited together.
It shook the world.
Day by day.
Youth Day.
Orlando West, Soweto, near Vilakazi Street
A twelve-year-old schoolboy shot dead by police on 16 June 1976 during the Soweto students' uprising.
