Hector Pieterson Museum

Open daily 10.00-17.00 (Sundays until 16.00) The Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto takes it's name from the first victim of the uprising in 1976, which was against the use of Afrikaans as the only language in schools. Pieterson was one of the first children shot dead by police during the 1976 Soweto uprising. The famous picture of his dead body, carried by his friend is an iconic image symbolic of this kind of resistance worldwide. In the museum, the video footage and photographs document this emotional protest, which saw 566 schoolchildren killed. To be honest, initially, I knew nothing of Hector