searching for soweto: mystery of a man whose image defined apartheid brutality /

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40 years after the Soweto rebellion,and a photo of a young man carrying a dead child ricocheted around the world, his identity remains shrouded in mysteryThe image that shocked the world It was a photo seen around the world: Mbuyisa Makhubu, or his face twisted with anguish,carrying 13-year-old Hector Pieterson in his arms after the child was fatally shot by South Africa’s apartheid-era police. Related: 'My activism started then': the Soweto rebellion remembered Related: Immigrant deaths expose 'legal black gap' of Canada's detention system Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com