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Soweto--Mbuyisa's Mother
Hector Pieterson Memorial.
Soweto, South Africa. Afrika.
July, 2005.
(TMAX film.)
Text by Lucille Davie
June 15, 2005
"Mbuyisa Makhubo, the schoolboy who picked up Hector [Pieterson], was harassed by the police after the incident and eventually went into exile. His mother, Nombulelo Makhubo, told the TRC that she received a letter from him from Nigeria in 1978, but that she had not heard from him since. She died in 2004.
The first casualty
Hector was not the first child to die in the 1976 Soweto uprising. Another boy, Hastings Ndlovu, is believed to have been the first child to be shot on that fateful day. But in the case of Hastings, there were no photographers on the scene, and his name never became famous. It is believed that Hastings died several days after the shooting. Eliot Ndlovu, father of Hastings, passed away in 2004.
Soweto--Mbuyisa's Mother
Hector Pieterson Memorial.
Soweto, South Africa. Afrika.
July, 2005.
(TMAX film.)
Text by Lucille Davie
June 15, 2005
"Mbuyisa Makhubo, the schoolboy who picked up Hector [Pieterson], was harassed by the police after the incident and eventually went into exile. His mother, Nombulelo Makhubo, told the TRC that she received a letter from him from Nigeria in 1978, but that she had not heard from him since. She died in 2004.
The first casualty
Hector was not the first child to die in the 1976 Soweto uprising. Another boy, Hastings Ndlovu, is believed to have been the first child to be shot on that fateful day. But in the case of Hastings, there were no photographers on the scene, and his name never became famous. It is believed that Hastings died several days after the shooting. Eliot Ndlovu, father of Hastings, passed away in 2004.