The first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of … of the 1976 uprising against the use of the Afrikaans in schools. Another boy, Hastings Ndlovu, is believed to have …