Editorial: This isn’t what Hector died for
Five decades after the watershed 1976 youth uprisings, the country is still pondering ways of repaying the huge debt of gratitude it owes the brave learners who took on the might of apartheid — unarmed but unafraid. At 50, the struggle has matured. Those who took part in it when police bullets rang out and reverberated around Soweto were children, like Hector Pieterson at 12.
Black News 
Five decades after the watershed 1976 youth uprisings, the country is still pondering ways of repaying the huge debt of gratitude it owes the brave learners who took on the might of apartheid — unarmed but unafraid. At 50, the struggle has matured. Those who took part in it when police bullets rang out and reverberated around Soweto were children, like Hector Pieterson at 12.
