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1976 Soweto uprisings

On 16 June 1976. Students in Soweto marched in protest against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at their schools. Police opened fire on the protest. Many children died.

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    Image Number: APN721945
    Title: 1976 Soweto Riots
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Protesters showing the peace sign as riot police move in during the June 1976 Soweto Riots. Circa June 1976. © Rand Daily Mail/Arena Holdings
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 5433 x 3308
    Media Id: 1949_2550
    Keywords: riots, Soweto, uprising, youth, South Africa,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN420189
    Title: Tsietsi Mashanini
    Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
    Description: A statue of Tsietsi Mashanini, a student leader during the 1976 Soweto uprising, at the Morris Isaacson High School in Jabavu, Soweto.Mahanini led a march from the school to protest agains the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools on June 16th 1976. He died in exile in Guinea (Conakry) in 1990.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Morris Isaacson High School, Jab
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5421 x 3614
    Media Id: 40_39138
    Credit: Jonathan Katzenellenbogen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: 16 June 1976, 1976, 1976 Soweto uprising, Jabavu, June 16, June 16th, Morris Isaacson High School, Soweto, Soweto 1976, Tsietsi Mashanini,
    Model Release: Yes
    Property Release: Yes

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    Image Number: APN559092
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Rand Daily Mail
    Description: June 1978. June 1976 Memorial Service. Students hold a banner which reads: 'Our day. We will always honour, praise and respect this day' Photographer unknown. © Rand Daily Mail/Times Media
    Collections: Rand Daily Mail
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3663 x 2475
    Media Id: 1289_318
    Credit: Times Media Group / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Crowd, Black, Meetings, Commemorations, Clenched Fists, Raised Fists, Power Salutes, Soweto Uprising, Students, High Schools, Secondary Schools, Afrikaans, Youth Day, Mourning, Remembrance, Apartheid, Anti Apartheid, Anti-apartheid, Bantu Education, Education, June 16, June 1976, Banners, South Africa, ERA: 1970s, Published: 1978-06-18, Orientation: Horizontal, Shelf: Black - Disturbances, Format: B&W Print,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN29438
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / David Goldblatt
    Description: DG0243, South Africa, Soweto, 1972: Students in Soweto learning Afrikaans. Education. 76 riots, protest, apartheid.David Goldblatt/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: David Goldblatt
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 4144 x 5821
    Media Id: 86_282
    Credit: David Goldblatt / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 1972, 1970s, students, school, education, apartheid, learning, reading, overcrowded, classrooms, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN422930
    Path: african.pictures
    Description: Photographer Sam Nzima with his iconic image of Hector Peterson during the 1976 Soweto uprising
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Paul Weinberg
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3701 x 5591
    Media Id: 1094_1097
    Credit: Paul Weinberg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Apartheid, Hector Pieterson, photography, resistance, riots,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN604594
    Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Ken Oosterbroek Collection
    Description: South Africa Two black women, sitting in wheelchairs, protest about violence. One is holding a sign which reads: SHOT 1976 This could be a reference to their having been shot in the Soweto Riots in 1976
    Collections: Ken Oosterbroek Collection
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4890 x 3474
    Media Id: 1385_67
    Credit: Ken Oosterbroek / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN255990
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Stories
    Description: DM2001011604:SAED:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The day Our Kids Lost Faith - marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a amedium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Stories
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2519 x 1732
    Media Id: 19_718
    Credit: Drum Stories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN32492
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2002061902:SAED:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The Day Our Kids Lost Faith - Marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a medium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5399 x 3590
    Media Id: 43_1000
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: South Africa, Drum Magazine, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1976, July, 1970s, marching, anti-apartheid, protesters, Naledi Township, Gauteng, Johannesburg, police, road, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN24427
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1822, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , June 16, (now Youth day) Hector Petersen, Soweto uprising. Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4968 x 3288
    Media Id: 110_517
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, Gauteng, horizontal, Pretoria, poster, Youth Day, June 16, Hector Petersen, Soweto uprising, commemoration, freedom fighters, liberation struggle, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN32488
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2002061901:SAED:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The Day Our Kids Lost Faith - Marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a medium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2790 x 3703
    Media Id: 43_720
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, 1976, July, vertical, 1970s, school children, marching, protesters, Naledi Township, violence, black African children, Johannesburg, Gauteng, crying, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN17796
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Paul Weinberg
    Description: PXPW0209, South Africa, Johannnsburg,1985June 16 celebrations. ANC youthPhotograph Paul Weinberg/South.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Paul Weinberg
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 6048 x 3988
    Media Id: 105_174
    Credit: Paul Weinberg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: horizontal, black and white image, Gauteng, Africa, South Africa, Johannesburg, 1985, ANC, African National Congress, black African youth, anti-apartheid, Youth Day, June 16, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717054
    Title: 126.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: A soweto resident runs away from the toxic smell of teargas in 1976. This was a method commonly used by the South African police to disperse crowds during 'illegal' gatherings
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2008 x 1403
    Media Id: 1709_218
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Black, Human Rights, Inequality, Oppression, Protest, Racism, Resistance, Soweto Rises, State Violence, Street scene, Struggle, Township, Turning Points, Violence,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN276808
    Title: Personalities
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Gille de Vlieg
    Description: Dan Montsitsi, one of the leaders of the Soweto student uprising of 1976 and of the Soweto Students Representative Coucnil
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Gille de Vlieg
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4662 x 3132
    Media Id: 546_29
    Credit: Gille de Vlieg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN26753
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1873, South Africa,Wesselton Township outside Ermelo township 2004: an ANC SACP mural on the wall showing June 16 Youth Day celebrations. Hector Petersen. apartheidGraeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3977 x 2590
    Media Id: 110_306
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Mpumalanga, Ermelo, Wesselton, wall paintings, murals, SACP, South African Communist Party, ANC, African National Congress, political symbols, portraits, politics, 2004, posters, Youth Day, June 16, Hector Petersen, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717080
    Title: 026.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: The face of an activist portrays the mood of 1976 as he chokes on hios own anger. This picture was taken at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto. A symbol of the resistance, it was an important venue for rallies and other political gatherings during the 1970s and 80s
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Regina Mundi Catholic Church
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4098 x 3260
    Media Id: 1709_244
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Black, Grief, Harassment, Inequality, Mourning, Oppression, Portrait, Racism, Rage, Resistance, State Violence, Struggle, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN36838
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000081409:SAED:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The day Our Kids Lost Faith - Soweto Uprising: marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a amedium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Mike Mzileni Baileys Archives)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2397 x 1774
    Media Id: 43_1568
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, marching, Bantu Education Act, 1976, July, Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng, protesters, black African children, scholars, slogans, 1970s, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN276861
    Title: Political prisoners
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Gille de Vlieg
    Description: Thandi Modise, jailed as a student for ten years following the 1976 Soweto student uprising, she later crossed the border into Angola to train as a member of MK and was the first woman soldier sent back to South Africa to organise in the townships
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Gille de Vlieg
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5617 x 3744
    Media Id: 547_4
    Credit: Gille de Vlieg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN27601
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Motlhalefi Mahlabe
    Description: MM0249 South Africa Johannesburg 2004Motlhalefi Mahlabe/SouthMARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK, MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM WITH HIS SON AT THE HECTOR PIETERSON MEMORIAL IN SOWETO - 2004
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Motlhalefi Mahlabe
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2480 x 1674
    Media Id: 61_972
    Credit: Motlhalefi Mahlabe / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Marthinus Van Schwalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, smiling, Afrikaners, 2000s, 2004, Soweto, The Hector Peterson Memorial, father & son, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN721944
    Title: Soweto Riots June 1976
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Youth protesting on the streets of Soweto. Circa June 1976. © Times Media
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 5433 x 3199
    Media Id: 1949_2549
    Keywords: Youth, peace sign, protesting, Soweto, South Africa, 1976, June,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN716990
    Title: 125.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: Young mourners, enraged by the massacre of June 16, march at the Doornkop Cemetery in Soweto at the burial of the victims
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Doornkop Cemetery
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3307 x 2317
    Media Id: 1709_154
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Black, Burial, Ceremony, Grief, Group Portrait, Human Rights, Inequality, Landscape, Massacre, Mourning, Oppression, Protest, Racism, Rage, State Violence, Turning Points, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN24426
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1821, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , June 16, (now Youth Day) Hector Petersen, Soweto uprising. Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2268 x 3132
    Media Id: 107_363
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Johannesburg, colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, protests, apartheid, struggle, poster, June 16th, Transvaal (pre 1994), Soweto uprising, Hector Petersen, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717112
    Title: 130.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: From very early in the morning of 16 June, school learners began to make their way to the various meeting points for a mass demonstration to protest against the use of Afrikaans in 'black' schools. This picture, taken before the event turned into a police-led massacre, captures the excitement of the morning
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2815 x 1854
    Media Id: 1709_276
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Bantu education, Black, Child, Landscape, Massacre, Matchbox housing, Oppression, Protest, Pupil, Racism, Rage, Resistance, Soweto Rises, State Violence, Street scene, Student, Township, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN24425
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1820, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , June 16, (now Youth day) Hector Petersen, Soweto uprising. Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2364 x 3396
    Media Id: 108_468
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Johannesburg, protests, apartheid, struggle, poster, June 16th, Transvaal (pre 1994), Soweto uprising, Hector Petersen, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717033
    Title: 135.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: Dead bodie lie in front of an army vehicle near Mzimhlope, just days after June 16. The police had been instructed to squash the resistance using whatever force was neccessary, and so the killings continued
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Mzimhlope,
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2469 x 1550
    Media Id: 1709_197
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Bantu education, Black, Casspir, Massacre, Oppression, Resistance, Soweto Rises, State Violence, Struggle, Student, Township, Violence, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN29447
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / David Goldblatt
    Description: DG0244, South Africa, Soweto, 1972: Students in Soweto learning Afrikaans. Education. 76 riots, protest, apartheid.David Goldblatt/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: David Goldblatt
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5956 x 4050
    Media Id: 86_236
    Credit: David Goldblatt / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 1972, 1970s, students, school, education, apartheid, learning, reading, overcrowded, classrooms, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN24428
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1823, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , June 16, (now Youth day) Hector Petersen, Soweto uprising, Poster protesting apartheid police bill, giving widespread powers. Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3492 x 5388
    Media Id: 110_119
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Johannesburg, colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, protests, apartheid, struggle, poster, June 16th, Transvaal (pre 1994), Soweto uprising, Hector Petersen, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN368007
    Title: The Hector Pietersen Memorial
    Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Rogan Ward
    Description: A tourist photographs the Hector Pietersen Memorial in Orlando West is situated near to the place where a young Hector Pietersen was shot on June 16, 1976, photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. , photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. © Rogan Ward 2013
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Rogan Ward
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4896 x 3264
    Media Id: 31_30211
    Credit: Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: apartheid, day, hector, massacre, memorial, nzima, orlando, photographer, pietersen, sam, sharpeville, soweto, west, youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN368005
    Title: The Hector Pietersen Memorial
    Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Rogan Ward
    Description: The Hector Pietersen Memorial in Orlando West is situated near to the place where a young Hector Pietersen was shot on June 16, 1976, photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. , photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. Photographer Sam Nzima's image is a chilling reminder. © Rogan Ward 2013
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Rogan Ward
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4476 x 3384
    Media Id: 31_30209
    Credit: Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: apartheid, day, hector, massacre, memorial, nzima, orlando, photographer, pietersen, sam, sharpeville, soweto, west, youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN368008
    Title: The Hector Pietersen Memorial
    Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Rogan Ward
    Description: A tour group visits the Hector Pietersen Memorial in Orlando West is situated near to the place where a young Hector Pietersen was shot on June 16, 1976, photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. , photographed on 3 January, 2013. He was one of many children protesting the use Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools. Photographer Sam Nzima's image is a chilling reminder. © Rogan Ward 2013
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: Rogan Ward
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4681 x 3120
    Media Id: 31_30212
    Credit: Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Keywords: apartheid, day, hector, massacre, memorial, nzima, orlando, photographer, pietersen, sam, sharpeville, soweto, west, youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717137
    Title: 132a.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: After June 1976, the youth increasingly played an important role in the liberation struggle. Not to be deterred by anyone or anything, they would fill up busses on their way to funerals and demonstrations in the seventies and eighties. Students hanging out of buses like these were a sign of the times
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2008 x 1343
    Media Id: 1709_301
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Bantu education, Black, Burial, Inequality, Oppression, Protest, Pupil, Racism, Rage, Resistance, Soweto Rises, Struggle, Student, Township, Violence, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN32730
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2002040407:SAED:POLITICS:YOUTH:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The day Our Kids Lost Faith - marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a amedium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Mike Mzileni Baileys Archives)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4545 x 2886
    Media Id: 42_812
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1976, July, 1970s, marching, protesters, black African children, Bantu Education Act, Johannesburg, Gauteng, slogans, Soweto, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN54005
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Motlhalefi Mahlabe
    Description: MM0279 South Africa, Soweto:Minister of Environment & Tourism Martinuis van Schalkwyk explaning the June 16 picture to his son. During the Shot Left campaign, the minister spent a night in Soweto. With them is Hector Petersen's sister Antonette. 09/04Photo: Motlhalefi Mahlabe/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Motlhalefi Mahlabe
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3540 x 2362
    Media Id: 61_776
    Credit: Motlhalefi Mahlabe / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Johannesburg, colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Gauteng, Marthinus Van Schwalkwyk, Minister of Environment & Tourism, father & son, explaining, pictures, Soweto, Hector Peterson, Sho't Left campaign, Afrikaners, 2004, 2000s, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN97965
    Title: Soweto riots
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2001011604:SAED:APARTHEID:JUL1976 - The day Our Kids Lost Faith - marching Kids, in a mood common to school kids the world over, happy that they were not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans a amedium of instruction at their schools. They march from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting others on their route to Orlando East, the north eastern end of the vast complex. If the police had not tried to wrest the posters from the children, if they had not tried to arrest any of them, if they had not tried to set dogs on to them, if they had not fired shots, June 16 would not have been as black a day as it turned out to be. (Photograph by Drum Photographer Baileys Archives)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2519 x 1732
    Media Id: 70_47
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: 1976, 1970s, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, Johannesburg, Soweto, Bantu Education Act, Gauteng, school children, black African children, apartheid, anti-apartheid, protesters, posters, slogans, armed forces, riots, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN94796
    Title: Soweto Student Uprising -
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2002040405:SAED:POLITICS:YOUTH:1976 - Soweto Student Uprising - Students going into exile to Tanzania to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Here four young students are interviewed by a Dar es Salaam journalist, Abdulla Riyami in Tanzania. From left to right; Miss Elsie Abrahams Biki (15), her brother Ernest Abrahams Biki (17), Michael Simango (17), and Richard Gardiner (16). The students took part in a demonstration and they said they were on the South African list of wanted people. (Photograph by Drum photograper BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Soweto, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2390 x 1809
    Media Id: 43_1058
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, Dar Es Salaam, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1970s, 1976, Tanzania, black African people, Umkhonto We Sizwe, anti-apartheid, freedom fighters, Elsie Abrahams Biki, Michael Simango, Richard Gardiner, Abdulla Riyami, journalist, journalists, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN27551
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / David Goldblatt
    Description: PXDG0077 South Africa Rural 1976.Women's church group - Tums Hall, burnt down in 76 uprisings. apartheid, prayer. Photographer David Goldblatt/South.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: David Goldblatt
    Pixel Size: 4975 x 4847
    Media Id: 86_186
    Credit: David Goldblatt / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: black and white image, black African women, square, Africa, South Africa, , churches, grieving, 1976, 1970s, rural, mourning, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN326144
    Title:
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Greg Marinovich
    Description: IPMG0487 South Africa,Kathlehong, 1992:A child next to a shack with graffiti `uprising' in Mandela Park squatter camp in Kathlehong, Gauteng province, South Africa Oct 1992. The South African government's housing policy and subsidies made it possible for them to get a low-cost housing unit on land they now own title deed to. Photograph by Greg Marinovich/South Photographs
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Greg Marinovich
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3698 x 2529
    Media Id: 824_376
    Credit: Greg Marinovich / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: health, poverty, family, home, toddler,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN274568
    Title: Personalities
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Gisele Wulfsohn
    Description: Murphy Morobe, who served three years in prison on Robben Island for his role as one of the leaders of the Soweto Uprising in June 1976. He helped form the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 and after the end of apartheid went on to serve as spokesperson for President Thabo Mbeki. Chair and CEO of the Financial & Fiscal Commission (FFC) (1994-2004); Provincial Secretary of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature (1994); CEO of Kagiso Media (KGM).
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Gisele Wulfsohn
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3581 x 5365
    Media Id: 506_17
    Credit: Gisele Wulfsohn / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN26727
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1845, South Africa,Wesselton Township outside Ermelo township 2004: Ripped posters on the wall showing June 16 Youth Day celebrations. Hector Petersen. Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2905 x 2256
    Media Id: 108_110
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, Mpumalanga, horizontal, Wesselton, Ermelo, wall paintings, murals, posters, political symbols, celebrations, Youth Day, June 16, 2004, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN717092
    Title: 132B.tif
    Path: african.pictures / Alf Kumalo Archive / Alf Kumalo Books / Through My Lens
    Description: After June 1976, the youth increasingly played an important role in the liberation struggle. Not to be deterred by anyone or anything, they would fill up busses on their way to funerals and demonstrations in the seventies and eighties. Students hanging out of buses like these were a sign of the times
    Collections: Through My Lens
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2657 x 1773
    Media Id: 1709_256
    Credit: © Alf Kumalo Family Trust
    Keywords: Activist, Apartheid, Bantu education, Black, Burial, Inequality, Oppression, Protest, Pupil, Racism, Rage, Resistance, Soweto Rises, Struggle, Student, Township, Violence, Youth,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN24439
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Graeme Williams
    Description: GW1835, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , June 16 (now Youth day) poster showing Hector Peterson Graeme Williams/South
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Graeme Williams
    Country: South Africa
    Pixel Size: 3180 x 3768
    Media Id: 108_510
    Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Johannesburg, protests, apartheid, struggle, poster, June 16th, Transvaal (pre 1994), Soweto uprising, Hector Petersen, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN279711
    Title: Vioelnce commemoration
    Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Paul Weinberg
    Description: The young commemmorating the 10th anniversary of the June 16, 1976 uprising, Alexandra, Johannesburg.
    Collections: South Photos
    Subcollections: Paul Weinberg
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Alexandra, Johannesburg
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3549 x 5319
    Media Id: 601_4
    Credit: Paul Weinberg / South Photos / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN272112
    Title: Sydney Sipho Sepamla
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Sydney Sipho Sepamla, South African poet, playwright and novelist, discusses his latest book, 'A Ride in the Whirlwind', about the 1976 uprising
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3659 x 5470
    Media Id: 459_2
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN32378
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2001053110:SAED:RELIGION:POLITICS:AUG1981 - June 16, The Day Warring Black Groups Buried The Political Hatchet - Commemoration of June 16 student uprising. Regina Mundi. Police threw teargas into the grounds of the church. Now the church might be closed for future services. ( BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3000 x 1930
    Media Id: 43_334
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: protests, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, horizontal, politics, religion, June 16th, June, 1981, demonstrations, uprisings, Regina Mundi church, youth, 1980s, colour image , ,
    Model Release: No
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