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Hector Pieterson Museum
A memorial museum to the Soweto student uprising of 16 June 1976.
- Editor's score
- 4.6
- Visit
- 1 h
- Price
- €
About
On 16 June 1976, thousands of schoolchildren marched in Soweto against the imposition of Afrikaans in their schools, and police opened fire. The museum is named after twelve-year-old Hector Pieterson, whose death was captured in a photograph that shocked the world. Exhibits and eyewitness accounts retrace the day and its role in the fight against apartheid.
Best time to go: Visit before Mandela House, a short walk away, and pause at the memorial outside.
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