
Image Number:
APN366322
APN366322
Title: Memorial to Hector Pieterson and all the other young heroes and heroines of our struggle unveiled Soweto by Nelson Mandela, Soweto, 16 June 1992 Description: Memorial to Hector Pieterson and all the other young heroes and heroines of our struggle unveiled Soweto by Nelson Mandela, Soweto, 16 June 1992.ANC president Nelson Mandela unveiled a memorial tombstone symbolising the death of student Hector Pietersen, said to have been the first person to die on June 16, 1976, and honouring more than 600 people killed in violent confrontations with police since that day.Defying calls on his organisation call off its mass actioncampaign, Mr Mandela also led a march by about 2000 supporters through Soweto to the memorial site at the Regina Mundi Church.He was joined by amongst others Oliver Tambo, Cyril Ramaphosa and Peter Mokaba. City: soweto Province or State: Gauteng Country: South Africa Date Created: 21-11-2012 Creator: Sue Kramer Credit Notice: Sue Kramer / Independent Photographers / african.pictures Pixel Dimensions X: 3292 Pixel Dimensions Y: 4961 Keywords:- mandela
- madiba
- nelson mandela
- youth day
- 16 june
- 16 june 1992
- hector
- hector peterson
- hector piterson
- hector pieterson memorial
- sam nzima
- youth
- march
- unveiling
- memorial
- soweto
- struggle
- struggle against apartheid
- anti apartheid movement
- ANC
- african national congress
- mass democratic movement
- cyril ramaphosa
- ANC Youth League
- 16 June 1976
- Orlando
- democracy
- freedom
- president of ANC
- President of South Africa
- Nobel peace Prize
- nelson
- politics
- Oliver Tambo
- crowds
- tombstone
- Billboard
- Peter Mokaba
- Tambo
- Ramaphosa
- Orlando west women
- s League flag
- Hector Pieterson