Category:Hector Pieterson

**Hector Pieterson**
	South African activist
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Date of birth	19 August 1963; Soweto
Date of death	16 June 1976; Soweto
Cause of death	gunshot wound;
Place of burial	Avalon Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	South Africa;
Occupation	activist;
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Deutsch: Hector Pieterson (* 19. August 1963 in Soweto, Südafrika; † 16. Juni 1976 ebenda) war ein südafrikanischer Schüler, der im Alter von zwölf Jahren bei einer Demonstration im Rahmen des Soweto-Aufstandes erschossen wurde.

English: Hector Pieterson (1964 – 16 June 1976) became the subject of an iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Nzima of the dying Hector being carried by another student while his sister ran next to them, was published around the world.