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. The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Khumalo Street is a few hundred meters from the spot where Pieterson was gunned down. Alongside the Hector Pieterson Memorial is the Hector Pieterson Museum, which opened on 16th June 2002. 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.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