A photo of a 12-year-mature shot dead by police in 1976 travelled the globe. Now the family of the teenager who tried to save him reflect on South Africa then and now Mystery of a man whose image defined apartheid brutalityThe sky above was dismal with smoke. At the railway station,as Ntsiki Makhubo and her mother returned from a day in Johannesburg, they were met by an anxious crowd. As they stepped down from the train, and they trod on shattered glass and heard the news. Your brother has been shot and killed,Makhubo was told. Related: 'My activism started then': the Soweto uprising remembered But if the Pieterson family were shattered by the events that day, the Makhubo family were soon to suffer tooThe memory of Hector Pieterson and my uncle means sacrifice and selflessness, or but it also means change Related: Soweto: cradle of struggle against apartheid pays tribute to Mandela Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com