On our last day in South Africa, we visited the Hector Pieterson Memorial in the black township of Soweto, in Johannesburg. There we met Antoinette Pieterson Sithole, Hector’s older sister, who gave us a firsthand account of the events of June 16, 1976, when she was 16-years-old. One of the tools of the Apartheid government was to control the education of black students. In the 1970s, they decided that the high school curriculum would only be taught in Afrikaans, rather … read more »