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Hector Pieterson

OPINION | Our youth have new but old battles to win
Opinion
/ 21 June 2022

OPINION | Our youth have new but old battles to win

During Youth Month led us reflect on ways in which they can be helped to mobilise and become productive citizens

By Lauren Marx
The current infatuation with portraiture has colonial roots
Friday
/ 2 March 2022

The current infatuation with portraiture has colonial roots

However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture

By Percy Mabandu
Entrepreneurship will save South Africa’s youth
Opinion
/ 22 June 2021

Entrepreneurship will save South Africa’s youth

Complaining about ‘reverse racism’ and BEE serves no one. South Africa’s white youth should focus on entrepreneurship instead

By Ian Fuhr
A portal to empathy: Photographs that change the world
Opinion
/ 17 June 2021

A portal to empathy: Photographs that change the world

It is important not to look away from visceral pictorial evidence of the suffering of disempowered people

By Sazi Bongwe
Young people want Youth Day to focus on today’s issues
Article
/ 14 June 2019

Young people want Youth Day to focus on today’s issues

It’s important to honour past heroes, but today’s youth activists also want their own struggles, and contemporary heroes, to be recognised

By Activate Change Drivers
A snapshot of Sam Nzima
Article
/ 18 May 2018

A snapshot of Sam Nzima

The photo that made him famous cost him his career and almost his life. His death may bring to life his plans for a school of photography

By Kwanele Sosibo
Ramaphosa, ANC hail veteran photographer Sam Nzima
Article
/ 13 May 2018

Ramaphosa, ANC hail veteran photographer Sam Nzima

The veteran photographer who ‘captured the full brutality of apartheid oppression’ died over the weekend

By Agency
Exposed: SA’s iconic pics plundered
Article
/ 13 April 2018

Exposed: SA’s iconic pics plundered

Our photographic heritage is being stolen by pirates peddling ‘pictures of pictures’

By Kwanele Sosibo
‘We didn’t burn schools,’ Zuma and 1976 activist tell Youth Day crowd
Article
/ 16 June 2016

‘We didn’t burn schools,’ Zuma and 1976 activist tell Youth Day crowd

"Each and every student was hell bent on defending their classrooms. Classrooms were never ever torched," 1976 student leader Dan Montsitsi said.

By Staff Reporter
[Archives] Ten things about June 16 1976
Article
/ 15 June 2016

[Archives] Ten things about June 16 1976

The day on which black South African school pupils rose up against "Bantu education" is now celebrated as Youth Day.

By Staff Reporter
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Analysis
/ 4 February 2016

Letting MuseumAfrica collapse is a cultural assault

Though it may never have lived up to the high ideals of its founder, its mandate certainly did

By Staff Reporter
Photographer says GCIS mum over R20m demand for Madiba image
Article
/ 9 December 2014

Photographer says GCIS mum over R20m demand for Madiba image

The state agency allegedly responsible for distributing a picture of Madiba globally says it is seeking an amicable resolution to the matter.

By Kwanele Sosibo
Family feud behind mall’s removal of June 16 statue
Article
/ 16 October 2014

Family feud behind mall’s removal of June 16 statue

A statue of Hector Pieterson was removed earlier this month from Soweto’s Maponya Mall "in response to the demands of Mbuyisa Makhubu’s family".

By Kwanele Sosibo
No image available
Article
/ 12 June 2014

Finding Mbuyisa Makhubu, the June 16 1976 hero

What happened to the pupil carrying Hector Pieterson in the photo that epitomises June 16 1976? The trail leads to Canada, but hope is fading.

By Kwanele Sosibo
Keep it in the family, begs Hector Pieterson’s sister
Article
/ 22 March 2013

Keep it in the family, begs Hector Pieterson’s sister

When it comes to the name and legacy of her brother, Hector, Lulu Pieterson does not take no for an answer.

By Staff Reporter

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