Lana Marks at the Hector Peterson Memorial. In honour of Youth Month, the City of Johannesburg will host its feast of celebratory events at the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum this June 16 to ...

The memorial plaque for Hector Pieterson in Soweto has been vandalised for the third time since being erected in 2002, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. ”It is terrible,” Antoinette Sithole, ...

The Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum was abuzz with activity on Friday as celebrations got underway for June 16. Young and old got together in commemoration of the class of 1976.

This experience was an educational one for the learners to recognise and learn about the changes the heroines have made for a better democracy Unity@One, a community-based NPO founded in 2023, is ...

SOWETO - The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum stand as powerful reminders of the 1976 student uprisings. At the heart of that story are the tour guides who bring history to life. They don’t just ...

It is mid-morning when I arrive on 8287 Khumalo Street within the South Western Township of Johannesburg, popularly known as Soweto. It is my first time here and I don’t fail to notice a brick-red ...

Johannesburg - One picture, taken amid the chaos of flying bullets and crying schoolchildren, became the iconic image that thrust the 1976 Soweto uprisings into world headlines. But while that ...

Photographer Sam Nzima was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, when police opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. His photographs from that day – including the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in South Africa on the first leg of an Africa trip. His first stop was a poignant one, as he visited a museum that commemorates a key moment in the ...

On a windy winter afternoon, a large group of workers hurried to finish erecting a stage in front of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in preparation for the annual Youth Day celebration. The ...