Hector Pieterson’s sister on Soweto Uprisings, 41 years later
Four decades later and Hector Pieterson’s sister says it’s difficult to describe the horror of that fateful day.
Antoinette Sithole says the march should never have turned bloody.
Then 17, Sithole along with thousands of other school children took to the streets of Soweto on 16 June 1976 to express their unhappiness with the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools.
She says no one expected such resistance from police.
As we commemorate Youth Day, Carla Mackenzie sits down with Sithole at the Hector Pieterson Museum to find out more.
She also shares some light-hearted moments.
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