Youth centre commemorates Youth Day in memorable moments
Reflecting on the fateful event, Sithole detailed the atrocities that were committed by the Apartheid regime on the day she lost her younger brother.
The Kliptown Youth Program Centre began preparing to celebrate Youth Day late last month before the main event at the centre premises, on June 16.
The NPO invited a historian and storyteller, Mama Antoinette Sithole to unpack the historic event of the Soweto uprising that changed the whole course for South Africans on June 16, 1976.
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Sithole is the sister of Zolile Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old Soweto schoolboy, who was shot and murdered by the apartheid police during the Soweto uprising when black learners were protesting the implementation of Afrikaans education.
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Reflecting on the fateful event, Sithole detailed the atrocities that were committed by the Apartheid regime on the day she lost her younger brother.
The widely published photograph that showed the last moment of Pieterson was captured by Sam Nzima. It depicts a fatally wounded Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo and Sithole, running beside them.
On June 16, 1976, students from Soweto peacefully protested the introduction of Afrikaans as a language of teaching in black schools.
The protests swiftly extended to numerous other regions of the nation, approximately, a thousand students lost their lives during the protests.
