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- 01Hector Pieterson was the first child killed in the Soweto Uprising; he was shot at approximately 10 a.m. on June 16, 1976.
- 02Photographer Sam Nzima was ordered by his editor to hand over the negatives; he hid a copy and smuggled it out.
- 03Mbuyisa Makhubo, the teenager carrying Hector in the photograph, fled South Africa and was never seen again after 1978.