Hector Pieterson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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".

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.

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