HECTOR PIETERSON MEMORIAL & MUSEUM | All Activities -June 16 1976 Student Uprising

The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto was erected in the early 1990's as a memorial to Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old child, who is believed to have been the second school pupil shot by police during the Soweto Student Uprising on 16th June, 1976 - but the first fatality. <br/><br/>The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Khumalo Street is a few hundred meters from the spot where Pieterson was gunned down. <br/><br/>Alongside the Hector Pieterson Memorial is the Hector Pieterson Museum, which opened on 16th June 2002. <br/>The Hector Pieterson Museum, which resembles an interpretive centre, looks at the events that led up to, and includes the 16th June, as a ¿day-in-the-life-of-South-Africa¿ ¿ a day that was to radically change the manner in which South Africa was governed, and radically change the course of history.<br/><br/>To understand the Soweto student uprising, we need to look back to the Bantu Education Act of 1953, which enforced the apartheid ideology of race segregation on all education levels ¿ including un